Blade geometry optimization for the design of wind turbine rotors

2000 ASME Wind Energy Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 266-276

  Gigubret, Philippe ^a   Seligz, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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