Decoupled aerodynamic and structural design of wind turbine adaptive blades

Renewable Energy

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1753-1767

  Maheri, Alireza ^a   Noroozi, Siamak ^a   Vinney, John ^a  

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

Author keywords

Adaptive blade design; Bend twist adaptive blade; Smart blade; Wind turbine

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

ADAPTIVE BLADE DESIGN; COUPLED-AERO-STRUCTURE (CAS); SMART BLADES;

WIND TURBINES;

AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WIND TURBINES;

AERODYNAMICS; DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; METHODOLOGY; MODELING; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 33847389969     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2006.11.004     Document Type: Article

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