Comparison of the effectiveness of analytical wake models for wind farm with constant and variable hub heights

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 124, Issue , 2016, Pages 189-202

  Wang, Longyan ^a   Tan, Andy C C ^b   Cholette, Michael ^a   Gu, Yuantong ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Analytical wake models; CFD simulations; Constant hub height; Variable hub heights; Wind farm

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODELS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ONSHORE WIND FARMS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WAKES; WIND; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

CFD SIMULATIONS; HUB HEIGHT; OBSERVATION DATA; POWER PRODUCTION; WAKE INTERACTIONS; WAKE MODEL; WIND FARM; WIND FARM LAYOUT OPTIMIZATIONS;

OFFSHORE WIND FARMS;

EID: 84978280271     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2016.07.017     Document Type: Article

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