An assessment of wind turbine characteristics and wind energy characteristics for electricity production

Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization and Environmental Effects

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 941-953

  Akpinar, E Kavak ^a   Akpinar, S ^a  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Weibull and Rayleigh distributions; Wind energy; Wind turbines

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746615662     PISSN: 15567036     EISSN: 15567230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00908310600718817     Document Type: Article

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