Design of a wind tunnel scale model of an adaptive wind turbine blade for active aerodynamic load control experiments

ICCM International Conferences on Composite Materials

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Hulskamp, Anton W ^a   Beukers, Adriaan ^a,b   Bersee, Harald E N ^a   Van Wingerden, Jan Willem ^c   Barlas, Thanasis ^d  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC LOADS; AERODYNAMICS; ELECTRIC LOAD MANAGEMENT; GLASS CERAMICS; TURBINE COMPONENTS; WIND; WIND POWER; WIND TUNNELS; WIND TURBINES;

EIGENFREQUENCY; HIGH WIND SPEED; SCALE MODELING; SENSOR SYSTEMS; TRAILING EDGE FLAPS; WIND ENERGY RESEARCH; WIND TURBINE BLADES;

TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

EID: 85076867523     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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