Do wind turbines pose roll hazards to light aircraft?

Wind Energy Science

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 833-843

  Tomaszewski, Jessica M ^a   Lundquist, Julie K ^a,b   Churchfield, Matthew J ^b   Moriarty, Patrick J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; TURBULENCE; WAKES; WIND; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

AVIATION AIRPORTS; ELECTRICITY-GENERATION; GENERAL AVIATION; GENERATE ELECTRICITY; LARGE-EDDY SIMULATIONS; ROLLING MOMENTS; RURAL LOCATIONS; SMALL AIRCRAFT; WIND FARM DEVELOPMENT; WIND SPEED;

HAZARDS;

EID: 85068038321     PISSN: 23667443     EISSN: 23667451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/wes-3-833-2018     Document Type: Article

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