Optimum blade numbers and solidities for small HAWTs

Collection of Technical Papers - 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting

Volumn 23, Issue , 2007, Pages 16226-16239

  Brown, M ^a,b,c   Visser, K D ^a,b,c  

^a CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Box 5725 ^*  (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLADE-ELEMENT MOMENTUM THEORY; NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY; OPTIMUM BLADE NUMBERS;

AERODYNAMICS; MACHINE DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 34250901058     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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