Noise propagation issues in wind energy applications

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 234-241

  Prospathopoulos, John M ^a   Voutsinas, Spyros G ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATTENUATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; VECTORS; WAVE EQUATIONS; WIND POWER;

AERODYNAMIC NOISE; ATMOSPHERIC ABSORPTION; FREQUENCY RANGE; WIND VELOCITY;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 19144363329     PISSN: 01996231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1862257     Document Type: Article

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