Mean and turbulent kinetic energy budgets inside and above very large wind farms under conventionally-neutral condition

Renewable Energy

Volumn 70, Issue , 2014, Pages 142-152

  Abkar, Mahdi ^a   Porté Agel, Fernando ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Atmospheric turbulence; Large eddy simulation; Mean and turbulent kinetic energy budgets; Wind farm

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUDGET CONTROL; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; KINETICS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; SHEAR FLOW; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

A1. LARGEEDDY SIMULATIONS (LES); DISSIPATION RATES; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; STATIC STABILITY; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; VELOCITY COMPONENTS; WIND FARM;

KINETIC ENERGY;

BOUNDARY LAYER; DISSIPATION; EDDY COVARIANCE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY FLUX; KINETIC ENERGY; MAGNITUDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; TURBULENCE; WIND FARM; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 84902264406     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2014.03.050     Document Type: Article

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