Efficient meshing of a wind turbine blade using force adaptive mesh sizing functions

Renewable Energy

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 95-104

  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 mesh; Shells; Wind turbine blade

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ENERGY CONVERSION; FORCE MEASUREMENT; TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

ADAPTIVE MESH; CONVERGENCE; SHELLS; WIND TURBINE BLADES;

WIND TURBINES;

AERODYNAMICS; ENERGY CONVERSION; FORCE MEASUREMENT; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WIND TURBINES;

AERODYNAMICS; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; WIND FORCING; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 33747193892     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2005.12.005     Document Type: Article

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