Modeling turbine wakes and power losses within a wind farm using LES: An application to the Horns Rev offshore wind farm

Renewable Energy

Volumn 75, Issue , 2015, Pages 945-955

  Wu, Yu Ting ^a   Porté Agel, Fernando ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Actuator disk models; Blade element theory; Horns Rev offshore wind farm; Large eddy simulation; Power deficit

Indexed keywords

ACTUATOR DISKS; DRAG; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FORECASTING; ITERATIVE METHODS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES; TORQUE; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WAKES;

BLADE-ELEMENT THEORY; INFLOW CONDITIONS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION TECHNIQUES; POWER DEFICIT; SCALE-DEPENDENT DYNAMICS; SUBGRID SCALE STRESS; THRUST COEFFICIENTS; THRUST DISTRIBUTION;

OFFSHORE WIND FARMS;

DESIGN; FIXED OFFSHORE STRUCTURE; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; ROTATION; SHAFT; TORQUE; TURBINE; WIND FARM;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; HORNS REV; NORTH SEA;

EID: 84912017614     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: 18790682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2014.06.019     Document Type: Article

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