Individual blade pitch control for the Controls Advanced Research Turbine (CART)

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 498-505

  Stol, Karl A ^a   Wenxin, Zhao ^a   Wright, Alan D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLADE FLAPS; COLLECTIVE PITCH; FATIGUE DAMAGE; RATED WIND CONDITIONS;

ALGORITHMS; BENDING (DEFORMATION); COMPUTER SIMULATION; STATE SPACE METHODS; STRUCTURAL LOADS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WIND TURBINES;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 33845579528     PISSN: 01996231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2349542     Document Type: Article

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