The near wake of a model horizontal-axis wind turbine - I. Experimental arrangements and initial results

Renewable Energy

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 225-243

  Ebert, P R ^a,b   Wood, D H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b Western Power   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOT WIRE ANEMOMETER; MODEL; WAKE; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 0031411483     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-1481(97)00046-3     Document Type: Article

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