Aerodynamic noise reduction for small wind turbine rotors

Wind Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 403-420

  Clifton Smith, M J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b DNV GL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC NOISE; BLADE ELEMENTS; DESIGN TIP SPEED RATIO; DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION; LOW WIND SPEED; NOISE EMISSIONS; NOISE PREDICTIONS; NOISE REDUCTIONS; NUMERICAL OPTIMISATION TECHNIQUES; POWER COEFFICIENTS; POWER PERFORMANCE; POWER PRODUCTION; SMALL WIND TURBINE; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; TIP SPEED RATIO; TRADE OFF; TURBINE NOISE; WIND TURBINE TECHNOLOGY;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; AERODYNAMICS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FIRE ALARM SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SPEED; ULTRASONICS; WIND TURBINES;

WIND POWER;

AERODYNAMICS; NOISE; NUMERICAL METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; WIND TURBINE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 77956357890     PISSN: 0309524X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/0309-524X.3.4.403     Document Type: Article

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