Design considerations, performance enhancing techniques, and wind tunnel testing for small-scale, low Reynolds number wind turbines

ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2011

Volumn 6, Issue PARTS A AND B, 2011, Pages 1263-1274

  Gregg, Jason R ^a   Burdett, Timothy A ^a   Van Treuren, Kenneth W ^a   McClain, Stephen T ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFOILS; ANGLE OF ATTACK; DRAG; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THERMOELECTRIC POWER; TUNNELS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WIND STRESS; WIND TUNNELS; WIND TURBINES;

COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; DESIGN TIP SPEED RATIO; FIXED PITCH WIND TURBINE; NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY; PASSIVE FLOW CONTROL; PERFORMANCE ENHANCING; TURBINE APPLICATIONS;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS;

EID: 84869161900     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/imece2011-65351     Document Type: Conference Paper

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