A three-tiered approach for designing and evaluating performance characteristics of novel WECS

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

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 403-413

  Cochran, Brad C ^a   Banks, David ^a   Taylor, Scott J ^b  

^a CPP Inc   (United States)

^b Terra Moya Aqua Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; ROTATION; ROTORS; STATORS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WIND; WIND EFFECTS; WIND TUNNELS;

COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DESIGN TOOLS; FLUID MOTION; WIND ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEMS (WECS);

WIND POWER;

EID: 3142781919     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2004-1362     Document Type: Conference Paper

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