Design of a low Reynolds number airfoil for small horizontal axis wind turbines

Renewable Energy

Volumn 42, Issue , 2012, Pages 66-76

  Singh, Ronit K ^a   Ahmed, M Rafiuddin ^a   Zullah, Mohammad Asid ^b   Lee, Young Ho ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC   (Fiji)

^b Korea Maritime University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Adverse pressure gradient; Airfoil; Flow characteristics; Horizontal axis wind turbine; Particle image velocimetry; Wind tunnel testing

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE PRESSURE GRADIENT; FLOW CHARACTERISTIC; HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINE; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; WIND TUNNEL TESTING;

AIRFOILS; ANGLE OF ATTACK; DRAG; LIFT; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WIND TUNNELS; WIND TURBINES;

FLOW VISUALIZATION;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DESIGN; DRAG; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW MODELING; FLOW PATTERN; PRESSURE GRADIENT; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VISUALIZATION; WIND TUNNEL; WIND TURBINE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84855561254     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2011.09.014     Document Type: Article

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