An examination of loads and responses of a wind turbine undergoing variable-speed operation

35th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages

  Wright, Alan D ^a   Buhl, Marshall L ^a   Bir, Gunjit S ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; ALGORITHMS; SPEED; WIND; WIND TURBINES;

ADDITIONAL CONTROL; AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS; COMPONENT INTERACTION; NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; POWER COEFFICIENTS; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE; VARIABLE SPEED OPERATIONS;

TURBINE COMPONENTS;

EID: 84983142808     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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