Comparing different CFD wind turbine modelling approaches with wind tunnel measurements

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

Volumn 555, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kalvig, Siri ^a,b   Manger, Eirik ^c   Hjertager, Bjørn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

^b StormGeo   (Norway)

^c Acona Flow Technology AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; OPEN SYSTEMS; WIND TUNNELS; WIND TURBINES;

ACTUATOR MODEL; COST-EFFICIENT; FORCE PREDICTIONS; LINE METHODS; OPEN SOURCES; WAKE VELOCITY; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT; WIND TUNNEL MEASUREMENTS;

ACTUATOR DISKS;

EID: 84919484354     PISSN: 17426588     EISSN: 17426596     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/555/1/012056     Document Type: Conference Paper

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