Numerical studies of the effects of active and passive circulation enhancement concepts on wind turbine performance

Collection of Technical Papers - 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 2412-2428

  Tongchitpakdee, Chanin ^a,b,c   Benjanirat, Sarun ^a,b,c   Sankar, Lakshmi N ^a,b,c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; ROTORS; SURFACE ANALYSIS; VISCOUS FLOW;

GURNEY FLAPS; HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINE (HAWT); RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY (NREL); TRAILING EDGE BLOWING;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 34250850841     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2006-198     Document Type: Conference Paper

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