Roughness sensitivity considerations for thick rotor blade airfoils

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 468-478

  Van Rooij, R P J O M ^a   Timmer, W A ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; LIFT; ROTORS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WIND TUNNELS; WIND TURBINES;

LIFT TO DRAG RATIO; ROTOR BLADES; ROUGHNESS SENSITIVITY; VORTEX GENERATORS; WIND TURBINE BLADES;

AIRFOILS;

EID: 0346361841     PISSN: 01996231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1624614     Document Type: Article

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