Experimental study on influence of pitch motion on the wake of a floating wind turbine model

Energies

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1954-1985

  Rockel, Stanislav ^a   Camp, Elizabeth ^b   Schmidt, Jonas ^c   Peinke, Joachim ^a   Cal, Raúl Bayoán ^b   Hölling, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b Portland State University   (United States)

^c FRAUNHOFER IWES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Experiment; Floating wind turbine; Offshore; Stereo particle image velocimetry (PIV); Unsteady aerodynamics; Wake; Wake models; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); EXPERIMENTS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WAKES; WIND TUNNELS; WIND TURBINES;

FLOATING WIND TURBINES; OFFSHORE; STEREO PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; UNSTEADY AERODYNAMICS; WAKE MODEL;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 84899129947     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en7041954     Document Type: Article

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