Reynolds number and roughness effects on thick airfoils for wind turbines

Wind Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 529-546

  Freudenreich, K ^a,b   Kaiser, Kalus ^b   Schaffarczyk, Alois P ^c   Winkley, H ^c,d   Stahl, Bernhard ^e  

^a DNV GL   (Norway)

^b DeWind GmbH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^d JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^e Cryogenic Wind Tunnel   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFOILS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; CRYOGENIC EQUIPMENT; DRAG; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIND TUNNELS;

GERMAN-DUTCH WIND-TUNNEL (DNW); NAVIER-STOKES SOLVER; ROUGHNESS EFFECTS; THICK AIRFOILS;

WIND TURBINES;

AEROFOIL; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROUGHNESS; WIND ENGINEERING; WIND TUNNEL MODELING; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 13844253748     PISSN: 0309524X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/0309524043028109     Document Type: Article

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