Dynamic loading on an upwind HAWT in yawed flow conditions: Deterministic loads

Wind Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 441-453

  Grant, A D ^a   Morgan, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC LOADS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ROTORS; TORQUE; TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

SOFTWARE PACKAGE YAWDYN; YAWED FLOW CONDITIONS;

WIND TURBINES;

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; LOADS; WIND TURBINES-HORIZONTAL AXIS; YAWING MOMENT;

EID: 0030391058     PISSN: 0309524X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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