Research Laboratory at the University of Utah

New Article: Distribution of mean kinetic energy around an isolated wind turbine and a characteristic wind turbine of a very large wind farm

Gerard Cortina, Marc Calaf, and Raúl Bayoán Cal
Phys. Rev. Fluids 1, 074402 (2016)

A detailed control volume analysis of the flow around a wind turbine illustrates the dominant components of the mean kinetic energy budget as well as their corresponding spatial distribution.