Wind in Complex Terrain-Lidar measurements for evaluation of CFD simulations

Remote Sensing

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Risan, Andrea ^a   Lund, John Amund ^b   Chang, Chi Yao ^c   Sætran, Lars ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b Meventus AS   (Norway)

^c FRAUNHOFER IWES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Detached eddy simulation; Lidar; Range gate length; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; OPTICAL RADAR; TURBULENCE; WIND POWER;

DETACHED EDDY SIMULATIONS; LIDAR MEASUREMENTS; RANGE GATES; RETURNED SIGNALS; REYNOLDS-AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES; TURBULENCE LEVEL; WIND ENERGY PRODUCTION; WIND POWER DEVELOPMENT;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 85040702457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs10010059     Document Type: Article

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