Urban wind: Characterisation of useful gust and energy capture

Renewable Energy

Volumn 81, Issue , 2015, Pages 162-172

  Emejeamara, F C ^a   Tomlin, A S ^a   Millward Hopkins, J T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Excess energy content; Small scale vertical axis wind turbine; Turbulence intensity; Urban wind

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE MODELS; URBAN PLANNING; WIND POWER;

BOUNDARY LAYER TURBULENCE; DYNAMIC CONTROL ALGORITHM; EXCESS ENERGY; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION MEASUREMENTS; SMALL SCALE WIND TURBINES; TURBULENCE INTENSITY; VERTICAL AXIS WIND TURBINES;

WIND TURBINES;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; ENERGY CONSERVATION; GUST; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TURBULENCE; URBAN CLIMATE; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 84925594221     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: 18790682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2015.03.028     Document Type: Article

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