The impact of active aerodynamic load control on fatigue and energy capture at low wind speed sites

European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition 2009, EWEC 2009

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages 2670-2679

  Berg, Dale E ^a   Wilson, David G ^a   Barone, Matthew F ^a   Resor, Brian R ^a   Berg, Jonathan C ^a   Paquette, Joshua A ^a   Zayas, Jose R ^a   Kota, Sridhar ^b   Ervin, Gregory ^b   Maric, Dragan ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b FlexSys Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERO TECHNOLOGY; BASELINE SYSTEMS; BLADE ROOTS; CONTROL OF WIND TURBINES; CRITICAL SYSTEMS; DAMAGE ESTIMATES; DRIVE TRAIN; ENERGY CAPTURE; FATIGUE DAMAGE ACCUMULATION; FLEXSYS; LOW WIND SPEED; MEAN WIND SPEED; MOMENT LOAD; OPERATING RANGES; RAYLEIGH; SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES; SIMULATION PROCEDURES; TURBINE SYSTEMS; TURBINE TOWERS; WIND ENERGY RESEARCH;

AERODYNAMIC LOADS; AERODYNAMICS; EXHIBITIONS; FATIGUE DAMAGE; WIND EFFECTS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

TURBINE COMPONENTS;

EID: 84870035344     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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