Self-similarity and turbulence characteristics of wind turbine wakes via large-eddy simulation

Wind Energy

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1815-1838

  Xie, Shengbai ^a   Archer, Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

large eddy simulation; self similarity; turbulence; wake model; wind turbine wake

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUDGET CONTROL; EXPANSION; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRESS; TURBULENCE; WIND; WIND TURBINES;

NEUTRAL BOUNDARY LAYER; SELF-SIMILARITIES; TURBULENCE CHARACTERISTICS; TURBULENCE INTENSITY; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; TURBULENT PROPERTIES; WAKE MODEL; WIND TURBINE WAKES;

WAKES;

EID: 84941168512     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.1792     Document Type: Article

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