Experimental testing of periodic roughness elements on a small scale wind turbine blade

ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE)

Volumn 7, Issue PARTS A AND B, 2010, Pages 981-988

  Gregg, Jason R ^a   Van Treuren, Kenneth W ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAS TURBINES; HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINE; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBINE COMPONENTS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WIND; WIND TUNNELS;

BAYLOR UNIVERSITY; CONDITION; EXPERIMENTAL TESTING; FLOW CONDITION; LARGE WIND TURBINES; ROUGHNESS ELEMENTS; SMALL-SCALE WIND TURBINES; TURBINE PERFORMANCE; WIND TURBINE BLADES; WIND TURBINE TESTING;

WIND TURBINE BLADES;

EID: 84881438643     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IMECE2010-38863     Document Type: Conference Paper

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