Roughness Effects on Wind-Turbine Wake Dynamics in a Boundary-Layer Wind Tunnel

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 27-42

  Barlas, E ^a   Buckingham, S ^b   van Beeck, J ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b VON KARMAN INSTITUTE FOR FLUID DYNAMICS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Roughness effects; Three component hot wire anemometer; Wind tunnel experiment; Wind turbine wakes

Indexed keywords

ANEMOMETERS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; SHEAR STRESS; TURBINE COMPONENTS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; WAKES; WIND POWER; WIND TUNNELS; WIND TURBINES;

BOUNDARY LAYER WIND TUNNEL; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; HOT WIRE ANEMOMETERS; ROUGHNESS EFFECTS; TIME RESOLVED MEASUREMENT; TURBULENCE CHARACTERISTICS; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT; WIND TURBINE WAKES;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

ANEMOMETER; BOUNDARY LAYER; SHEAR STRESS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENCE; WAKE; WIND TUNNEL; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 84953358988     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: 15731472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-015-0083-z     Document Type: Article

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