The UAE wind turbine performance prediction using wind tunnel airfoil data

Proceedings of 2010 World Non-Grid-Connected Wind Power and Energy Conference, WNWEC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 79-83

  Zhang, Chenkai ^a   Hu, Jun ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

Author keywords

BEM (Blade Element Momentum) method; NREL Phase VI wind turbine rotor; Stall delay; WT PERF

Indexed keywords

BLADE-ELEMENT MOMENTUMS; DATA SELECTION; NREL PHASE VI WIND TURBINE ROTOR; OPTIMIZATION AND DESIGN; PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; PREDICTION METHODS; STALL DELAY; WIND TUNNEL TESTS; WIND TURBINE AERODYNAMICS; WIND TURBINE PERFORMANCE PREDICTIONS; WT-PERF;

AERODYNAMICS; AIRFOILS; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; DATA REDUCTION; FORECASTING; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; OPTIMIZATION; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WIND TUNNELS; WIND TURBINES;

WIND POWER;

EID: 78751520943     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WNWEC.2010.5673181     Document Type: Conference Paper

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