Similitude relationships for physical modelling of monopile-supported offshore wind turbines

International Journal of Physical Modelling in Geotechnics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 58-68

  Bhattacharya, Subhamoy ^a   Lombardi, Domenico ^a   Wood, David Muir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Offshore engineering; Scaling laws

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053604044     PISSN: 1346213X     EISSN: 20426550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/ijpmg.2011.11.2.58     Document Type: Article

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