Active control of flow separation and structural vibrations of wind turbine blades

Wind Energy

Volumn 13, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 221-237

  Maldonado, Victor ^a   Farnsworth, John ^a   Gressick, William ^a   Amitay, Michael ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow control; Synthetic jets; Turbine blade; Vibration control

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ANGLE OF ATTACK; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; FLOW CONTROL; FLOW FIELDS; FLOW SEPARATION; JETS; POTENTIAL FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; TURBINE COMPONENTS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VIBRATION CONTROL; WIND TUNNELS; WIND TURBINES;

ACTIVE STALL CONTROL; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY TECHNIQUE; STRUCTURAL VIBRATIONS; SURFACE STATIC PRESSURE; SYNTHETIC JET ACTUATORS; SYNTHETIC JETS; TURBINE BLADE; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT;

TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

ACTIVE CONTROL; CONTROL SYSTEM; FLOW CONTROL; FLOW FIELD; FLOW MEASUREMENT; JET; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VIBRATION; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 77950605657     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.336     Document Type: Article

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