Design of a new urban wind turbine airfoil using a pressure-load inverse method

Renewable Energy

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2728-2734

  Henriques, J C C ^a   Marques da Silva, F ^b   Estanqueiro, A I ^c   Gato, L M C ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING   (Portugal)

^c INETI   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Inverse method; Prescribed blade load; Wind turbine airfoil

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE PRESSURE GRADIENT; COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; CONSTANT PRESSURES; CONVENTIONAL BLADES; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; INLET ANGLES; INVERSE METHOD; INVERSE METHODS; LEADING EDGE; PRESCRIBED BLADE LOAD; SUCTION SIDE; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; WIND TURBINE AIRFOIL; WIND TURBINE AIRFOILS; WIND TURBINE BLADES;

AIRFOILS; DESIGN; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LIFT; PRESSURE GRADIENT; WIND POWER; WIND TUNNELS; WIND TURBINES;

ENGINES;

AIRFLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DESIGN METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INVERSE ANALYSIS; URBAN REGION; WIND TUNNEL; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 68049126138     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2009.05.011     Document Type: Article

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