Scaling small-scale wind turbines for wind tunnel testing

Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo

Volumn 6, Issue , 2012, Pages 811-820

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

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAS TURBINES; HEAT TRANSFER; WIND STRESS; WIND TUNNELS; WIND TURBINES;

GEOMETRIC SIMILARITY; MATCHINGS; REYNOLD NUMBER; ROTATIONAL VELOCITY; SCALINGS; SIMPLE++; SMALL-SCALE WIND TURBINES; TIP SPEED RATIO; TURBINE PERFORMANCE; WIND-TUNNEL TESTING;

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EID: 84881131092     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/GT2012-68359     Document Type: Conference Paper

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