Wind Turbine Aerodynamics and Vorticity-Based Methods Fundamentals and Recent Applications /

• Main Author: Branlard, Emmanuel (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Research Topics in Wind Energy, 7
• Subjects: Energy.; Renewable energy resources.; Fluids.; Fluid mechanics.; Power electronics.; Renewable energy sources.; Alternate energy sources.; Green energy industries.; Renewable and Green Energy.; Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks.; Fluid- and Aerodynamics.; Engineering Fluid Dynamics.

The book introduces the fundamentals of fluid-mechanics, momentum theories, vortex theories and vortex methods necessary for the study of rotors aerodynamics and wind-turbines aerodynamics in particular. Rotor theories are presented in a great level of details at the beginning of the book. These the...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Fluid Mechanics Foundations
• Part II Introduction to Rotors Aerodynamics
• Part III Classical Vortex Theory Results: Optimal Circulation and Tip-Losses
• Part IV Latest Developments in Vorticity-based Rotor Aerodynamics
• Part V Latest Applications of Vortex Methods to Rotor Aerodynamics and Aeroelasticity
• Part VI Analytical Solutions for Vortex Methods and_Rotor Aerodynamics
• Part VII Vortex Methods
• Part VIII Complements.