Compliant blades for passive power control of wind turbines

Wind Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 3-11

  Lee, A T ^a   Flay, R G J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROELASTICITY; BLADE AERODYNAMICS; CONTROL METHOD; FIBER-REINFORCED MATERIAL; WIND POWER CONTROL; WIND TURBINE COMPONENT;

BENDING STRENGTH; FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS; POWER CONTROL; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

WIND TURBINE BLADE AERODYNAMICS; WIND VECTORS;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 0033930921     PISSN: 0309524X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/0309524001495369     Document Type: Article

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