Development of low-noise drag-type vertical wind turbines

Renewable Energy

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 199-208

  Kim, Sanghyeon ^a   Cheong, Cheolung ^a  

^a Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Aerodynamic noise; Drag type wind turbine; Low noise wind turbine; Savonius wind turbine; Vertical axis wind turbine; Vortex shedding

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC DRAG; AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL AEROACOUSTICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW FIELDS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; TURBULENCE; VORTEX FLOW; VORTEX SHEDDING; WIND TURBINES; AEROACOUSTICS; DRAG; FLUID DYNAMICS; TURBINE COMPONENTS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

AERODYNAMIC NOISE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS TECHNIQUE; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; LOW NOISE; NOISE GENERATION MECHANISMS; REYNOLDS AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; SAVONIUS WIND TURBINE; VERTICAL AXIS WIND TURBINES;

TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WIND TURBINES;

AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DESIGN; DRAG COEFFICIENT; FLOW FIELD; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; NOISE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VORTEX SHEDDING; WIND TURBINE; ACOUSTIC METHOD; DRAG; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VORTEX;

EID: 84933509756     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: 18790682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2014.09.047     Document Type: Article

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