Fish schooling as a basis for vertical axis wind turbine farm design

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Whittlesey, Robert W ^a   Liska, Sebastian ^a   Dabiri, John O ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAY PERFORMANCE; CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINES; MECHANICAL POWER; POTENTIAL FLOW MODEL; POWER COEFFICIENTS; SPATIAL ARRANGEMENTS; VERTICAL AXIS WIND TURBINES;

ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FISH; WIND POWER;

WIND TURBINES;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENERGY RESOURCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FISH; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WIND;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; ENERGY-GENERATING RESOURCES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FISHES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WIND;

EID: 77956780018     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/5/3/035005     Document Type: Article

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