A numerical study on improving airfoil performance at low reynolds numbers for small-scale wind turbines using intentional roughness

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Burdett, Timothy A ^a   Gregg, Jason A ^a   Van Treuren, Kenneth W ^a  

^a Baylor University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFOIL PERFORMANCE; CURRENT DEPENDENCE; ENERGY PORTFOLIO; HIGH ENERGY CONSUMPTION; HORIZONTAL-AXIS WIND TURBINES; LIFT AND DRAG; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; NON-RENEWABLE RESOURCE; NUMERICAL CODE; POWER GRIDS; POWER PERFORMANCE; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SURFACE AREA; SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SOURCES; TURBINE BLADE; TURBINE PERFORMANCE; WIND CONDITIONS; WIND FARM; WIND SPEED;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; AIRFOILS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ENERGY UTILIZATION; EXHIBITIONS; OPTIMIZATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WIND EFFECTS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 84871891539     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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