Methods for increasing region 2 power capture on a variable-speed wind turbine

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1092-1100

  Johnson, Kathryn E ^a   Fingersh, Lee J ^a   Balas, Mark J ^b   Pao, Lucy Y ^b  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTIMALLY TRACKING ROTORS (OTR); POWER CAPTURE; VARIABLE-SPEED WIND TURBINES; WIND-SPEED FLUCTUATIONS;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POWER GENERATION; ROTORS; SPEED CONTROL; TURBULENCE;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 12344313148     PISSN: 01996231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1792653     Document Type: Article

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