On the statistics of wind turbine wake meandering: An experimental investigation

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Howard, Kevin B ^a   Singh, Arvind ^a,b   Sotiropoulos, Fotis ^a   Guala, Michele ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES; WIND TUNNELS; WIND TURBINES;

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; OPERATING CONDITION; OPERATING CONFIGURATIONS; PARALLEL ORIENTED; PIV VELOCITY VECTOR; SMALL-SCALE VORTICES; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYERS; WIND TURBINE WAKES;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 84937012987     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: 10897666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4923334     Document Type: Article

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