1. Wake meandering of a model wind turbine operating in two different regimes
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Fotis Sotiropoulos, David Charles Maniaci, Xiaolei Yang, Daniel Foti, and Filippo Campagnolo
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Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes ,Nacelle ,020209 energy ,Flow (psychology) ,Computational Mechanics ,02 engineering and technology ,Mechanics ,Wake ,01 natural sciences ,Turbine ,010305 fluids & plasmas ,Physics::Fluid Dynamics ,Amplitude ,Modeling and Simulation ,0103 physical sciences ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Dynamic mode decomposition ,Physics::Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics ,Geology ,Wind tunnel - Abstract
We present wind tunnel and numerical experiments of the flow behind a model wind turbine in optimal and sub-optimal regimes. Spatio-temporal filtering and dynamic mode decomposition reveal that the onset and amplitude of wake meandering are affected by both the operating regime and the nacelle.
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- 2018
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