"Blind Test 3" calculations of the performance and wake development behind two in-line and offset model wind turbines

Journal of Fluids and Structures

Volumn 52, Issue , 2015, Pages 65-80

  Krogstad, Per Åge ^a   Sætran, Lars ^a   Adaramola, Muyiwa Samuel ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Blind test; Prediction method comparison; Wind turbines

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; FORECASTING; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; WAKES; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

BLIND TEST; DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY; MEASUREMENT DATA; PREDICTION METHOD COMPARISONS; REYNOLDS AVERAGED; THRUST FORCES; TURBULENCE FIELDS; WIND PARK;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 84920413593     PISSN: 08899746     EISSN: 10958622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2014.10.002     Document Type: Article

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