Load reduction potential using airfoils with variable trailing edge geometry

43rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit - Meeting Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 4523-4540

  Buhl, Thomas ^a   Gaunaa, Mac ^a   Bak, Christian ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; AERODYNAMICS; AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; DAMPING; SENSORS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WIND TURBINES;

EDGE GEOMETRY; LOAD REDUCTION POTENTIAL; STANDARD DEVIATION (SD); TRAILING EDGES;

AIRFOILS;

EID: 30744462098     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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