An investigation of the aerodynamic response of a wind turbine blade to tower shadow

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1034-1040

  Munduate, Xabier ^a   Coton, Frank N ^a   Galbraith, Roderick A McD ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC LOADS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMPING; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; UNSTEADY FLOW; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES; WIND TURBINES;

COSINE FUNCTION; FLOW VELOCITY; SURFACE PRESSURE; WIND VELOCITY;

TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

EID: 12344277657     PISSN: 01996231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1765683     Document Type: Article

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