Aerodynamic analysis of wind turbine flows using open source software

Chapter 2, briefly describes the basic aerodynamics theory of Horizontal Axis Wind Thrbines (HAWT). General aerodynamic concepts and the operation of airfoils are introduced. This chapter provides a glimpse of the classical aerodynamic methods review and the most useful definitions, appearing in the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Liu, Jiye.
Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/55321