Investigation of the impact of the upstream induction zone on LIDAR measurement accuracy for wind turbine control applications using large-Eddy simulation

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

Volumn 524, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Simley, Eric ^a   Pao, Lucy Y ^a   Gebraad, Pieter ^b   Churchfield, Matthew ^c  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROELASTICITY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; TORQUE; WIND; WIND TURBINES;

DE CORRELATIONS; LIDAR MEASUREMENTS; MEASUREMENT QUALITY; POTENTIAL SOURCES; RADIAL VELOCITY; SPATIAL AVERAGING; WIND DISTURBANCE; WIND TURBINE CONTROL;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 84903689184     PISSN: 17426588     EISSN: 17426596     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/524/1/012003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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