WTAB, a computer program for predicting the performance of horizontal axis wind turbines with adaptive blades

Renewable Energy

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1673-1685

  Maheri, Alireza ^a   Noroozi, Siamak ^a   Toomer, Chris A ^a   Vinney, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive blade; BEMT; Elastic coupling; TRIC; Wind turbine

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

ADAPTIVE BLADES; BEMT; ELASTIC COUPLING; TRIC;

WIND TURBINES;

AERODYNAMICS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WIND TURBINES;

AERODYNAMICS; COUPLING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; SOFTWARE; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 33746278340     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2005.09.023     Document Type: Article

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