Low Reynolds number airfoils for small horizontal axis wind turbines

Wind Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 367-380

  Giguère, Philippe ^a   Selig, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFOILS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; LIFT; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STANDARDS; WIND TUNNELS;

HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINES (HAWT); WIND TURBINE BLADE EROSION;

WIND TURBINES;

AEROFOIL; REYNOLDS NUMBER; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 0031397947     PISSN: 0309524X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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