Modeling stable thermal stratification and its impact on wind flow over topography

Wind Energy

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 369-383

  Bleeg, James ^a   Digraskar, Dnyanesh ^a   Woodcock, Jon ^a   Corbett, Jean Franҫois ^a  

^a DNV GL   (Norway)

Author keywords

CFD; Nocturnal boundary layer; RANS; Stability; Stable stratification; Wind flow modeling

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FORECASTING; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; TOPOGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WIND POWER;

NOCTURNAL BOUNDARY LAYERS; RANS; REYNOLDS-AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES; STABLE BOUNDARY LAYER; STABLE STRATIFICATION; WIND SPEED MEASUREMENT; WIND SPEED PREDICTION; WIND-FLOW MODEL;

WIND;

EID: 84921883811     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.1692     Document Type: Conference Paper

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