Shape optimum design of horizontal axis wind turbine in low reynolds number range

European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition 2007, EWEC 2007

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 1837-1843

  Watanabe, Yukio ^a   Iwashita, Hidetsugu ^b   Ito, Masamitsu ^b  

^a TOBA NATIONAL COLLEGE OF MARITIME TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC ANALYSIS; AERODYNAMIC PREDICTIONS; B-SPLINE APPROXIMATION; B-SPLINE INTERPOLATIONS; CALCULATION EFFICIENCY; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINES; THREE DIMENSIONAL EFFECT;

ANGLE OF ATTACK; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; DESIGN; EXHIBITIONS; INTERPOLATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SPLINES; WIND POWER;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 84875322437     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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