Concepts for adaptive wind turbine blades

2002 ASME Wind Energy Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 56-69

  Ashwill, Thomas D ^a   Veers, Paul S ^a   Griffin, Dayton ^b   Locke, James ^b   Contreras, Ivan ^c   Zuteck, Mike D ^d  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Global Energy Concepts   (United States)

^c Wichita State University   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

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