Winglet design for wind turbines using a free-wake vortex analysis method

50th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting Including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Maniaci, David C ^a,b   Maughmer, Mark D ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Aerospace Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; AIRFOILS; SPEED; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES; WIND;

EXPERIMENTAL TEST; OPERATING SPEED; PEAK PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE GAIN; RESEARCH GROUPS; SMALL WIND TURBINE; STALL-REGULATED; UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 84862270317     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2012-1158     Document Type: Conference Paper

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