Empirical modeling of single-wake advection and expansion using full-scale pulsed lidar-based measurements

Wind Energy

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2085-2103

  Machefaux, E ^a   Larsen, G C ^a   Troldborg, N ^a   Gaunaa, M ^a   Rettenmeier, A ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

actuator line technique; CFD; large eddy simulation; lidar; spherical Hill's vortex; turbulence; vortex cylinder; wake advection; wake expansion; wake meandering

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ADVECTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COPYRIGHTS; EXPANSION; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; OPTICAL RADAR; WAKES;

ACTUATOR LINE TECHNIQUE; EMPIRICAL MODEL; LARGE-EDDY SIMULATIONS; PULSED LIDAR; SPHERICAL HILL VORTEX; VORTEX CYLINDER; WAKE ADVECTION; WAKE DYNAMICS; WAKE EXPANSIONS; WAKE MEANDERING;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 85131873716     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.1805     Document Type: Article

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