Review of computer-aided numerical simulation in wind energy

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 25, Issue , 2013, Pages 122-134

  Miller, Aaron ^a   Chang, Byungik ^a   Issa, Roy ^a   Chen, Gerald ^a  

^a WEST TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CFD; Computer modeling Review; FEA; Numerical simulation; Wind energy; Wind turbine

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER MODELING; DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATIONS; NOISE PREDICTIONS; POSSIBLE FUTURES; RECENT RESEARCHES; RESEARCH EFFORTS; SUPPORT STRUCTURES; WIND ENERGY INDUSTRY;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84877931635     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2013.03.059     Document Type: Review

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