Including swirl in the actuator disk analysis of wind turbines

Wind Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 317-323

  Wood, David H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ARSENIC; DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); ELECTRIC GENERATORS; HYDRAULIC MACHINERY; HYDRAULIC MOTORS; SPEED; TURBINES; WAKES; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

ACTUATOR DISKS; BASIC RESULTS; BETZ LIMIT; CORE RADIUS; GENERAL MODEL; MAXIMUM POWER; POWER COEFFICIENTS; TIP SPEED RATIO; VORTEX MODELS; VORTEX STRUCTURES;

VORTEX FLOW;

POWER LAW; VORTEX FLOW; WAKE; WIND MEASUREMENT; WIND TURBINE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 48749098852     PISSN: 0309524X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/030952407783418766     Document Type: Article

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