Iterative approach for optimising coefficient of power, coefficient of lift and drag of wind turbine rotor

Renewable Energy

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 83-93

  Rajakumar, S ^a   Ravindran, D ^b  

^a ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b NATIONAL ENGINEERING COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Angle of attack; Blade element; CFD; Chord; Twist

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; BLADE ELEMENTS; BLADE GEOMETRY; BLADE SPAN; BLADE-ELEMENT THEORY; CFD ANALYSIS; CHORD; CLOSED-FORM EQUATIONS; COEFFICIENT OF POWER; COMPUTATIONAL TIME; HORIZONTAL-AXIS WIND TURBINES; INDUCTION FACTORS; ITERATIVE APPROACH; ITERATIVE PROCEDURES; LIFT AND DRAG; MATHEMATICAL CODES; MAXIMUM POWER; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; POWER COEFFICIENTS; ROTATIONAL VELOCITY; TANGENTIAL FLOW; TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS; TWIST; TWIST ANGLES; WIND SPEED; WIND TURBINE ROTORS; WIND VELOCITIES;

AIRFOILS; ANGLE OF ATTACK; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DRAG COEFFICIENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MILLING MACHINES; VELOCITY; WIND TURBINES;

AERODYNAMIC DRAG;

AERODYNAMICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOMETRY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; WIND TURBINE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 80052548669     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2011.07.006     Document Type: Article

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