Improving safety and performance of small-scale vertical axis wind turbines

Procedia Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue , 2012, Pages 99-106

  Yen, Joshua ^a   Ahmed, Noor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dynamic stall; Renewable energy; Vertical axis wind turbine; Zero net mass flux actuation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883517236     PISSN: 18777058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2012.10.117     Document Type: Conference Paper

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