Effects of an escarpment on flow parameters of relevance to wind turbines

Wind Energy

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 2271-2286

  Barthelmie, R J ^a   Wang, H ^a   Doubrawa, P ^a   Giroux, G ^b   Pryor, S C ^c  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b The Wind Energy Institute of Canada   (Canada)

^c Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

Author keywords

cliff; escarpment; flow; modeling; observations; speed up; tilt; wind turbine

Indexed keywords

COPYRIGHTS; LANDFORMS; MODELS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; TURBULENCE; WIND;

CLIFF; ESCARPMENT; FLOW; OBSERVATIONS; SPEED UP; TILT;

WIND TURBINES;

CLIFF; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; FLOW MODELING; MEASUREMENT METHOD; ROUGHNESS; STRATIFICATION; TURBULENCE; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84961266985     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.1980     Document Type: Article

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