Numerical simulation of the aerodynamics of horizontal axis wind turbines under yawed flow conditions

43rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit - Meeting Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 14015-14025

  Tongchitpakdee, Chanin ^a,b,c   Benjanirat, Sarun ^a,b,c   Sankar, Lakshmi N ^a,b,c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORIZONTAL AXIS; RADIAL LOCATIONS; TRANSITION MODEL; WIND SPEED;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; ROTORS; VISCOUS FLOW; WIND TURBINES;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 30744437420     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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