Atmospheric stability-dependent infinite wind-farm models and the wake-decay coefficient

Wind Energy

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1269-1285

  Peña, Alfredo ^a   Rathmann, Ole ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

atmospheric stability; boundary layer model; infinite wind farm; Park wake model; wake decay coefficient; wind speed reduction

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; SEPARATION; SPEED; STABILITY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBINES; WAKES; WIND; WIND POWER;

ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY; BOUNDARY LAYER MODELS; DECAY COEFFICIENTS; WAKE MODEL; WIND FARM; WIND SPEED;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY LAYER; POWER GENERATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WAKE; WIND FARM; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84904545075     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.1632     Document Type: Article

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