Impact of the Diurnal Cycle of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer on Wind-Turbine Wakes: A Numerical Modelling Study

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 423-448

  Englberger, Antonia ^a   Dörnbrack, Andreas ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atmospheric boundary layer; Diurnal cycle; Large eddy simulation; Turbulence; Wind turbine wake

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; TURBULENCE; WAKES; WIND TURBINES;

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS; DIURNAL CYCLE; HETEROGENEOUS CONDITIONS; HETEROGENEOUS TERRAINS; HOMOGENEOUS CONDITIONS; STABLE BOUNDARY LAYER; WIND TURBINE SIMULATION; WIND TURBINE WAKES;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER;

BOUNDARY LAYER; DIURNAL VARIATION; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; TURBULENCE; WAKE; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 85031398890     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: 15731472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-017-0309-3     Document Type: Article

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