On adapting a small PM wind generator for a multiblade, high solidity wind turbine

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 685-692

  Khan, M A ^a   Pillay, P ^b   Visser, K D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b Clarkson University   (United States)

Author keywords

Permanent magnet (PM) generators; Wind energy

Indexed keywords

EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERMANENT MAGNETS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINES (HAWTS); PERMANENT MAGNET GENERATORS; WIND GENERATORS;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS;

EID: 24644509017     PISSN: 08858969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEC.2005.847952     Document Type: Article

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