Analysis of the furling behavior of small wind turbines

Applied Energy

Volumn 87, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2278-2292

  Audierne, Etienne ^a   Elizondo, Jorge ^b   Bergami, Leonardo ^a   Ibarra, Humberto ^a   Probst, Oliver ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES   (Mexico)

^b Diseño Eólico y Solar   (Mexico)

Author keywords

BEM; Furling; Lagrangian formalism; Small wind turbine; Wake; Xfoil

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; POWER CONTROL; SPEED; WAKES; WIND TURBINES;

AERODYNAMIC FORCES; BLADE-ELEMENT MOMENTUMS; DOMINANT MECHANISM; FURLING; LAGRANGIAN FORMALISM; SMALL WIND TURBINE; STEADY-STATE VALUES; XFOIL;

WIND;

AERODYNAMICS; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MOMENTUM; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 77953230229     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2009.11.019     Document Type: Article

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