A shape adaptive airfoil for a wind turbine blade

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7979, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Daynes, Stephen ^a   Weaver, Paul M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aeroelasticity; anisotropy; composites; load control; Morphing trailing edge; variable camber; wind turbine

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC CONTROL; AEROELASTIC ANALYSIS; CELLULAR STRUCTURE; COMPOSITES; CONTROL LOADS; HIGH STRAINS; HINGED FLAP; LARGE DEFLECTION; LIGHT WEIGHT; LOAD CARRYING; LOAD CONTROL; MORPHING; REDUCED ACTUATION; RIGID BODY; ROTOR CONTROLS; ROTOR SPEED; SHAPE-ADAPTIVE; TURBINE COMPONENTS; VARIABLE CAMBER; WIND TURBINE BLADES;

AERODYNAMICS; AEROELASTICITY; AIRFOILS; ANISOTROPY; ROTORS; STRAIN; TECHNOLOGY; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

EID: 79956083894     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.879208     Document Type: Conference Paper

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