Confinement effects in wind-turbine and propeller measurements

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 756, Issue , 2014, Pages 110-129

  Segalini, Antonio ^a   Inghels, Pieter ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

vortex dynamics; vortex flows; wakes jets

Indexed keywords

ACTUATOR DISKS; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES; WIND TURBINES;

CONFINEMENT EFFECTS; FREE-STREAM VELOCITY; ITERATIVE SCHEMES; POWER COEFFICIENTS; VORTEX DYNAMICS; WAKE EXPANSIONS; WAKE STRUCTURES; WAKES/JETS;

PROPELLERS;

FLOW FIELD; FLUID MECHANICS; JET FLOW; VORTEX FLOW; WAKE; WIND TURBINE; FLOW MODELING; FLOW VELOCITY; VORTICITY;

EID: 84906871677     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2014.440     Document Type: Article

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