Studies on a horizontal axis wind turbine with passive pitch-flap mechanism (performance and flow analysis around wind turbine)

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 516-522

  Shimizu, Yukimaru ^a   Kamada, Yasunari ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flow pattern; Flow visualization; Fluid machinery; Horizontal axis wind turbine; Passive control; Pitching and flapping motions; Vortex ring

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142127898     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: 1528901X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1375817     Document Type: Article

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