Process modeling and validation of resin infusion type manufacturing of composite wind turbine blades

Collection of Technical Papers - 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting

Volumn 19, Issue , 2006, Pages 14594-14603

  Cairns, Douglas S ^a   Mastbergen, Daniel B ^a  

^a Idaho National Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DARCY FLOW; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; VOLUME INFUSION;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; HULLS (SHIP); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; WIND TURBINES;

TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

EID: 34250767668     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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