Implications of stably stratified atmospheric boundary layer turbulence on the near-wake structure of wind turbines

Energies

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 5740-5763

  Bhaganagar, Kiran ^a   Debnath, Mithu ^a  

^a The University of Texas at San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric boundary layer (ABL); Mixing layer; Tip and root vortices; Turbulence; wake effects; Wind turbine

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; INDUCTANCE; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MIXING; SHOCK TUBES; STABILITY; TURBULENCE; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES; WIND TURBINES;

HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINES; MIXING LAYERS; NEAR-WAKE STRUCTURE; STABLE STRATIFICATION; TURBULENCE STRUCTURES; TURBULENT MIXING LAYERS; WAKE EFFECT; WIND TURBINE SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84907386794     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en7095740     Document Type: Article

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