Design and wind-tunnel verification of low-noise airfoils for wind turbines

AIAA Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 779-785

  Lutz, T ^a,b,c   Herrig, A ^a,b,c   Wurz W ^a,b,c   Kamruzzaman, M ^a,b,c   Kramer E ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b Institute of Aerodynamics and Gas Dynamics   (Germany)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REYNOLDS STRESS; SELF-NOISE; TRAILING-EDGE FAR-HELD NOISE; XFOIL;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AIRFOILS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; WIND TURBINES;

WIND TUNNELS;

EID: 34247348159     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.27658     Document Type: Article

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