Simulation of wind energy output at Guajira, Colombia

Renewable Energy

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 383-399

  Mejía, Juan M ^a   Chejne, Farid ^a   Smith, Ricardo ^a   Rodríguez, Luis F ^b   Fernández, Oscar ^b   Dyner, Isaac ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^b Empresas Públicas de Medellín ^*  (Colombia)

Author keywords

Horizontal axis wind turbine; Mathematical modeling; Wind energy

Indexed keywords

AIRFOILS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WIND TURBINES;

ANGULAR MOMENT CONSERVATION; BLADE ELEMENT THEORY; HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINES; WIND ENERGY OUTPUT;

WIND POWER;

ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY; WIND POWER;

COLOMBIA; LA GUAJIRA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 27744557336     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2005.03.014     Document Type: Article

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