The effect of turbulence on noise emissions from a micro-scale horizontal axis wind turbine

Renewable Energy

Volumn 41, Issue , 2012, Pages 180-184

  Rogers, T ^a   Omer, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Built environment; Noise; Turbulence; Wind energy

Indexed keywords

BUILT ENVIRONMENT; BUILT-UP AREAS; ENERGY NEEDS; HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINES; LOW WIND SPEED; MICRO-SCALES; MICRO-WIND TURBINES; NOISE; NOISE EMISSIONS; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; SOUND ENERGY; SOUND LEVEL; SOUND SPECTRUM; TURBULENCE INTENSITY; UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM;

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; EXPERIMENTS; TURBULENCE; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

BUILDING; NOISE; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; TURBULENCE; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 84155172062     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2011.10.017     Document Type: Article

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