Wind Panel Manual: Modelling the Aerodynamics of Wind Turbines

Alexander Duncan Giles

Wind Panel Manual: Modelling the Aerodynamics of Wind Turbines

Alexander Duncan Giles

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This report is a manual which describes the theory which underpins WindPanel, a piece of software developed to model both horizontal and vertical axis wind turbines. Also included in the manual is a user manual section

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Glasgow
Publisher	University of Strathclyde
Number of pages	83
Publication status	Published - 20 Oct 2017

Keywords

aerodynamics
panel method
wind turbines
Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWTs)
horizontal axis wind turbine design
wind farm
modelling
vortex method

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