Rotational Effects on the Boundary-Layer Flow in Wind Turbines

AIAA Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 408-411

  Dumitrescu, Horia ^a,b   Cardos, Vladimir ^a,b  

^a Inst of Stat/Applied Mathematics   (ROM)

^b Department of Fluid Mechanics ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFOILS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; VISCOSITY; WIND EFFECTS; WIND TURBINES;

THREE-DIMENSIONAL EFFECTS; WIND SPEEDS;

ROTORS;

EID: 1542783351     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.9103     Document Type: Article

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