The Nebulous Art of Using Wind Tunnel Aerofoil Data for Predicting Rotor Performance

Wind Energy

Volumn 5, Issue 2-3, 2022, Pages 245-257

  Tangler, James L ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

delayed stall; performance prediction; wind tunnel data; wind turbines

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; LIFT; NASA; WAKES; WIND TUNNELS;

AEROFOIL DATA; BLADE-ELEMENT MOMENTUMS; DATA SET; DELAYED STALL; LIFTING SURFACES; PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; PRESCRIBED WAKE; ROTOR PERFORMANCE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL; WIND-TUNNEL DATA;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 0142096151     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.71     Document Type: Article

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