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Articles | Volume 7, issue 3
Articles | Volume 7, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1321-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-1321-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 7, issue 3
Research article
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28 Jun 2022
Research article |  | 28 Jun 2022

Impact of the wind field at the complex-terrain site Perdigão on the surface pressure fluctuations of a wind turbine

Florian Wenz, Judith Langner, Thorsten Lutz, and Ewald Krämer

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To get a better understanding of the influence of the terrain flow on the unsteady pressure distributions on the wind turbine surface, a fully resolved turbine was simulated in the complex terrain of Perdigão, Portugal. It was found that the pressure fluctuations at the tower caused by vortex shedding are significantly hampered by the terrain flow, while the pressure fluctuations caused by the blade–tower interaction are hardly changed.
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