Start-up behavior of a three-bladed H-darrieus vawt: Experimental and numerical analysis

Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages 811-820

  Bianchini, Alessandro ^a   Ferrari, Lorenzo ^a   Magnani, Sandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLADE SHAPES; CRITICAL BEHAVIOR; DARRIEUS; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSION; EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL CAMPAIGN; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; INITIAL POSITION; NUMERICAL CODE; PARASITIC EFFECT; START-UPS; SUBMODELS; THEORETICAL APPROACH; TIME-DEPENDENT; TRANSIENT BEHAVIOR; TRANSIENT PHASIS; TURBINE LAYOUTS; WIND VELOCITIES;

AIRCRAFT ENGINES; AIRFOILS; ALTERNATIVE FUELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; WIND TURBINES;

EXHIBITIONS;

EID: 80052884780     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/GT2011-45882     Document Type: Conference Paper

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