Profile stall characteristics, aerodynamic damping and design implications for wind turbine blades

37th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 314-324

  Voutsinas, Spyros G ^a   Chaviaropoulos, Panagiotis K ^b   Riziotist, Vasilis A ^a   Mourikis, Dimitris G ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Centre for Renewable Energy Sources   (Greece)

Author keywords

Dynamic stall; Edgewise vibrations; Flap Edge instability; Wind turbines

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC STABILITY; AERODYNAMICS; AEROELASTICITY; AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; DESIGN; LINEARIZATION; TURBINE COMPONENTS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WIND TURBINES;

AERODYNAMIC MODELING; AERODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; AEROELASTIC MODELING; AEROELASTIC STABILITY; DESIGN IMPLICATIONS; DYNAMIC STALLS; EDGEWISE VIBRATIONS; PARAMETRIC INVESTIGATIONS;

AERODYNAMIC STALLING;

EID: 84982318375     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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