Testing rotating horizontal axis wind turbine blade designs in a laboratory wind tunnel

Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo

Volumn 5, Issue , 2010, Pages 901-909

  Van Treuren, Kenneth W ^a   Gregg, Jason R ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2D AIRFOILS; 3D MODELS; AERODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; AFFINITY LAWS; ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; BLADE TESTING; DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; EMPIRICAL EQUATIONS; FULL SCALE; HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINES; LIFT AND DRAG; MODEL TESTS; PUMP DESIGN; PUMP PARAMETERS; SMALL SIZE; TWO-PUMP; WIND MACHINES; WIND TURBINE BLADES; WIND-TUNNEL DATA; WIND-TUNNEL TESTING;

AERODYNAMICS; AIRFOILS; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; MACHINE DESIGN; MACHINERY; PUMPS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROTATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TUNNELS; UNDERWATER CONSTRUCTION; WIND POWER; WIND STRESS; WIND TUNNELS; WIND TURBINES;

TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

EID: 82055179269     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/GT2010-23575     Document Type: Conference Paper

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