Stability of methods in the free-vortex wake analysis of wind turbines

Collection of ASME Wind Energy Symposium Technical Papers AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 339-353

  Gupta, Sandeep ^a   Leishman, J Gordon ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Department of Aerospace Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; ROTORS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

FREE-VORTEX WAKE ANALYSIS; LIFT COEFFICIENT; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DIFFERENCE OPERATOR;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 3142771795     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2004-827     Document Type: Conference Paper

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