The shape and performance of hand-carved small wind turbine blades

Wind Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 299-304

  Clausen, P D ^a   Freere, P ^b   Peterson, P ^c   Wilson, S V R ^c   Wood, D H ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Aerogenesis   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WIND TURBINES;

COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINES; MEASUREMENTS OF; NUMERICALLY CONTROLLED MILLING MACHINES; SMALL WIND TURBINE BLADES; STARTING PERFORMANCE; SURFACE MODELING; THREE DIMENSIONAL SCANNER;

TURBINE COMPONENTS;

DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SHAPE; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 70349448487     PISSN: 0309524X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/0309-524X.33.3.299     Document Type: Article

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3. http://www.3dscanco.com/products/3d-scanners/3d-laser-scanners/handyscan-3d/exascan.cfm
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