Optimal rotors for distributed wind turbines

47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Crawford, Curran ^a   Stack, Luke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERMANENT MAGNETS; WIND POWER;

ACTIVE SPEED CONTROLS; DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; DISTRIBUTED WIND TURBINES; LOW-FREQUENCY NOISE; PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; PERMANENT MAGNET GENERATOR; SMALL WIND TURBINE; SYSTEMATIC OPTIMIZATION;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 78549232283     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2009-1546     Document Type: Conference Paper

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