Yaw rate, rotor speed and gyroscopic loads on a small horizontal axis wind turbine

Wind Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 197-209

  Wright, Andrew K ^a   Wood, David H ^b  

^a Hydro Tasmania Consulting   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; BENDING MOMENTS; GYROSCOPES; ROTORS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

WIND SPEED; YAW RATE;

WIND TURBINES;

AERODYNAMICS; BENDING MOMENTS; GYROSCOPES; ROTORS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WIND TURBINES;

AERODYNAMICS; WIND DIRECTION; WIND TURBINE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 35048818443     PISSN: 0309524X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/030952407781998837     Document Type: Article

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