Effect of turbulence variation on extreme loads prediction for wind turbines

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 387-395

  Moriarty, Patrick J ^a   Holley, William E ^b   Butterfield, Sandy ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROELASTIC CODES; EXTREME LOAD PREDICTION; PARAMETRIC MODELS; TURBULENCE VARIATIONS;

AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMIC LOADS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TURBULENCE;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 3242804180     PISSN: 01996231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1510137     Document Type: Article

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