Trailing edge wedge flaps for wind-turbine blades

Wind Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 39-44

  Bloy, A W ^a   Tsioumanis, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFOILS; DRAG; LIFT; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; WAKES; WIND TUNNELS; WIND TURBINES;

AEROFOIL CHORD; FLAP DEFLECTION; TRAILING EDGE WEDGE FLAPS;

TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

AEROFOILS; BLADE AERODYNAMICS; WIND TUNNEL MODELLING; WIND TURBINE COMPONENTS;

EID: 0030826710     PISSN: 0309524X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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