Revisiting the vertical-axis wind-turbine design using advanced computational fluid dynamics

43rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit - Meeting Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 12783-12805

  Vassberg, John C ^a,c   Gopinath, Arathi K ^b,c   Jameson, Antony ^b,c  

^a Hydro Aero Consulting Group   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFOILS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WIND TURBINES;

AIRFOIL SECTION; TURBINE BLADES; TURBINE TIP SPEEDS; WIND-TURBINE DESIGN;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 30744460123     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2005-47     Document Type: Conference Paper

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