Closed-loop control wind tunnel tests on an adaptive wind turbine blade for load reduction

46th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Barlas, Thanasis ^a   Van Wingerden, Jan Willem ^b   Hulskamp, Anton ^a   Van Kuik, Gijs ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSERVOELASTICITY; FEEDBACK; STRAIN; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; TURBINE COMPONENTS; WIND STRESS; WIND TUNNELS; WIND TURBINES;

AEROSERVOELASTIC SYSTEMS; CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL; DYNAMICS AND CONTROL; FEEDBACK CONTROLLED SYSTEMS; PIEZOELECTRIC BENDER ACTUATORS; ROOT BENDING MOMENT; VARIABLE TRAILING EDGE GEOMETRY; WIND TURBINE BLADES;

TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

EID: 78149464047     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2008-1318     Document Type: Conference Paper

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