Testing basic performance of a very small wind turbine designed for multi-purposes

Renewable Energy

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1279-1297

  Hirahara, Hiroyuki ^a   Hossain, M Zakir ^a   Kawahashi, Masaaki ^a   Nonomura, Yoshitami ^b  

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUJITA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flow measurement; Particle image velocimetry; Power coefficient; Renewable energy; Small wind turbine; Wind turbine

Indexed keywords

TORQUE; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; VISUALIZATION;

ACCELERATED FLOW FIELDS; ENERGY OUTPUT; POWER COEFFICIENTS; WIND TURBINE SYSTEMS;

WIND TURBINES;

DESIGN; FLOW MEASUREMENT; PERFORMANCE; TESTING; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 13444279872     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2004.10.009     Document Type: Article

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