Blade load mitigation control design for a wind turbine operating in the path of vortices

Wind Energy

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 339-355

  Hand, M Maureen ^a   Balas, Mark J ^b  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance accommodating control; Load mitigation; State space control; Wind turbines

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; LOADS (FORCES); TURBULENT FLOW;

DISTURBANCE ACCOMMODATING CONTROL; LOAD MITIGATION; STATE-SPACE CONTROL;

WIND TURBINES;

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; LOADS (FORCES); TURBULENT FLOW; WIND TURBINES;

ALGORITHM; MITIGATION; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 34547840167     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.225     Document Type: Article

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