Simulation of wind turbine wakes using the actuator line technique

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 373, Issue 2035, 2015, Pages

  Sorensen, Jens N ^a,b   Mikkelsen, Robert F ^a   Henningson, Dan S ^c   Ivanell, Stefan ^b,c   Sarmast, Sasan ^a,c   Andersen, Soren J ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Actuator line; Large eddy simulation; Wakes; Wind turbines

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

ACTUATOR LINE TECHNIQUE; ANALYTICAL FORMULAS; NUMERICAL TOOLS; PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; PROPER ORTHOGONAL DECOMPOSITIONS; WAKE INTERACTIONS; WAKE STRUCTURES; WIND TURBINE WAKES;

WAKES;

EID: 84921323545     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2014.0071     Document Type: Article

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