Mutual inductance instability of the tip vortices behind a wind turbine

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 755, Issue , 2014, Pages 705-731

  Sarmast, Sasan ^a,b   Dadfar, Reza ^a   Mikkelsen, Robert F ^b   Schlatter, Philipp ^a   Ivanell, Stefan ^a,c   Sørensen, Jens N ^b   Henningson, Dan S ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

instability; vortex interaction; wakes

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; FLOW CONTROL; INDUCTANCE; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLASMA STABILITY; STABILITY; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES; WIND TUNNELS; WIND TURBINES;

DYNAMIC MODE DECOMPOSITIONS; GRID CONFIGURATIONS; INSTABILITY MECHANISMS; MODAL DECOMPOSITION; OPERATING CONDITION; PROPER ORTHOGONAL DECOMPOSITIONS; SPECIFIC FREQUENCIES; VORTEX INTERACTIONS;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

FLOW STABILITY; INSTABILITY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; VORTEX FLOW; WAKE; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 84920769619     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2014.326     Document Type: Article

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