A Wind-Tunnel Simulation of the Wake of a Large Wind Turbine in a Weakly Unstable Boundary Layer

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 156, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 395-413

  Hancock, P E ^a   Zhang, S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atmospheric boundary layer; Unstable boundary layer; Wind tunnel experiment; Wind turbine wakes

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; HEAT FLUX; SHEAR FLOW; TURBINE COMPONENTS; TURBOMACHINERY; TURBULENCE; WAKES; WIND TUNNELS; WIND TURBINES;

BOUNDARY LAYER TURBULENCE; LARGE WIND TURBINES; TURBULENCE LEVEL; VELOCITY DEFICITS; VERTICAL HEAT FLUXES; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT; WIND TURBINE WAKES; WIND-TUNNEL SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER;

BOUNDARY LAYER; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HEAT FLUX; TURBULENCE; WAKE; WIND TUNNEL; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 84938742132     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-015-0037-5     Document Type: Article

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