Characterization of wind velocities in the upstream induction zone of a wind turbine using scanning continuous-wave lidars

Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Simley, Eric ^a   Angelou, Nikolas ^b   Mikkelsen, Torben ^b   Sjöholm, Mikael ^b   Mann, Jakob ^b   Pao, Lucy Y ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL RADAR; SCANNING; STATISTICS; TIME SERIES; TURBOGENERATORS; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY; WAKES; WIND; WIND TURBINES;

COEFFICIENT OF POWER; FREE-STREAM VELOCITY; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING SYSTEMS; LONGITUDINAL VELOCITY; MECHANICAL COEFFICIENTS; STANDARD DEVIATION; TECHNICAL UNIVERSITIES; TURBULENCE STATISTICS;

TURBINE COMPONENTS;

EID: 84955457353     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19417012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4940025     Document Type: Article

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