Desirable airfoil features for smaller-capacity straight-bladed VAWT

Wind Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 165-196

  Islam, Mazharul ^a   Ting, David S K ^a   Fartaj, Amir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Darrieus; Straight bladed; VAWT; Vertical axis wind turbine

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AIRFOILS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DESIRABLE AIRFOIL; SYMMETRIC AIRFOILS; VERTICAL AXIS WIND TURBINE;

WIND TURBINES;

AERODYNAMICS; AIRFOILS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; WIND TURBINES;

AERODYNAMICS; DESIGN; GEOMETRY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 35248858867     PISSN: 0309524X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/030952407781998800     Document Type: Article

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