Noise source localization on a small wind turbine using a compact microphone array with advanced beamforming algorithms: Part II-A study of mechanical noise from nacelle using a wind turbine drive train simulator

Wind Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 89-100

  Patel, Hirenkumar ^a   Ramachandran, Rakesh C ^a   Raman, Ganesh ^a   Jiang, Yong ^a   Shi, Xiaodong ^a   Krishnamurthy, Mahesh ^a  

^a ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC BEAMFORMING; ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS; BEAMFORMING ALGORITHMS; MECHANICAL COMPONENTS; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; NOISE CONTRIBUTIONS; SMALL SCALE WIND TURBINES; SMALL WIND TURBINE;

ACOUSTIC GENERATORS; ALGORITHMS; BEAMFORMING; MICROPHONES; WIND TURBINES;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ALGORITHM; NOISE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POINT SOURCE; POWER GENERATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 84897852758     PISSN: 0309524X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/0309-524X.38.1.89     Document Type: Article

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