Small-scale wind energy portable turbine (SWEPT)

Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

Volumn 116, Issue , 2013, Pages 21-31

  Kishore, Ravi Anant ^a   Coudron, Thibaud ^a   Priya, Shashank ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational Fluid Dynamics; Diffuser augmented wind turbine; Portable power; Small scale wind turbine; Wind energy

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; WIND; WIND POWER; WIND TUNNELS; WIND TURBINES;

AERO-DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; CUT-IN WIND SPEED; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; MECHANICAL POWER; PORTABLE POWER; SMALL SCALE WIND TURBINES; SMALL-SCALE WIND ENERGIES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 84875122204     PISSN: 01676105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jweia.2013.01.010     Document Type: Article

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