Rotor speed dependent yaw control of wind turbines based on empirical data

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kragh, Knud A ^a   Fleming, Paul A ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; ALIGNMENT SYSTEM; CORRECTION SCHEMES; CURRENT PERFORMANCE; EMPIRICAL DATA; LOAD VARIATIONS; MAXIMUM POWER; ROTOR SPEED; WIND DIRECTIONS; YAW CONTROL;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; ALIGNMENT; EXHIBITIONS; OPTICAL RADAR;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 84873820750     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2012-1018     Document Type: Conference Paper

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