Wind tunnel study of the wind turbine interaction with a boundary-layer flow: Upwind region, turbine performance, and wake region

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2017, Pages

  Bastankhah, M ^a   Porte Agel, F ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY; WIND TUNNELS; WIND TURBINES;

DIFFERENT OPERATING CONDITIONS; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; PROPER ORTHOGONAL DECOMPOSITIONS; STREAM-WISE VELOCITIES; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYERS; TURBULENT INFLOW CONDITIONS; VORTEX BREAKDOWN POSITIONS; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT;

WAKES;

EID: 85020688402     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: 10897666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4984078     Document Type: Article

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