Aerodynamic analysis of wind turbine flows using open source software

• Main Author: Liu, Jiye.
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/55321
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...