Drone-based experimental investigation of three-dimensional flow structure of a multi-megawatt wind turbine in complex terrain

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 137, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Subramanian, B ^a   Chokani, N ^a   Abhari, R S ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

drone; FRAP; rotor; tip vortices; wake; wind

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FLOW CONTROL; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; LANDFORMS; ROTORS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VORTEX FLOW; WAKES; WIND; WIND POWER; WIND TUNNELS; WIND TURBINES;

AERODYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS; DRONE; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FRAP; SHORT TIME FOURIER TRANSFORMS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW STRUCTURE; TIP VORTEX; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY;

TURBINE COMPONENTS;

EID: 84938330767     PISSN: 01996231     EISSN: 15288986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4031038     Document Type: Article

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