Lift enhancement of airfoil and tip flow control for wind turbine

Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (English Edition)

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 825-836

  Bai, Ya Lei ^a   Ma, Xing Yu ^a   Ming, Xiao ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

Author keywords

Flow control; Flow deflector; Flow separation; Multi island genetic algorithm; Tip vortex diffuser

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; BLADE TIP; BLADE TIP VORTEX; BOUNDARY-LAYER SEPARATION; FLOW CONTROL TECHNIQUES; FLOW DEFLECTOR; HIGH ANGLE OF ATTACK; HIGHER LIFT-DRAG RATIO; LEADING EDGE; LIFT ENHANCEMENT; MULTI-ISLAND GENETIC ALGORITHM; SURFACE PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; TIP VORTEX; TOTAL PRESSURE COEFFICIENTS; WAKE VORTEX; WIND TURBINE AIRFOILS; WIND TURBINE BLADES;

FLOW CONTROL; FLOW SEPARATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LIFT DRAG RATIO; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; VORTEX FLOW; WIND TUNNELS; WIND TURBINES;

AIRFOILS;

EID: 80052545416     PISSN: 02534827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10483-011-1462-8     Document Type: Article

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