Experimental study of wind turbine blade power augmentation using airfoil flaps, including the Gurney flap

Wind Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 25-34

  Bao, Nengsheng ^a   Ma, Haoming ^a   Ye, Zhiquan ^a  

^a SHANTOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Gurney flap; Horizontal axis wind turbine; Power augmentation

Indexed keywords

BLADE AERODYNAMICS; HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINE; LIFT (FLUID MECHANICS); WIND TURBINE COMPONENT;

DRAG; JET FLAPS; LIFT; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WIND POWER; WIND TUNNELS;

HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINE SYSTEMS; TRAILING EDGE FLAPS;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 0033928594     PISSN: 0309524X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/0309524001495387     Document Type: Article

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