Introduction to Wind Turbine Aerodynamics

✍ Scribed by A. P. Schaffarczyk (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 276
• Series: Green Energy and Technology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Wind-Turbine Aerodynamics is a self-contained textbook which shows how to come from the basics of fluid mechanics to modern wind turbine blade design. It presents a fundamentals of fluid dynamics and inflow conditions, and gives a extensive introduction into theories describing the aerodynamics of wind turbines. After introducing experiments the book applies the knowledge to explore the impact on blade design.The book is an introduction for professionals and students of very varying levels.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Types of Wind Turbines....Pages 7-20
Basic Fluid Mechanics....Pages 21-63
Inflow Conditions to Wind Turbines....Pages 65-73
Momentum Theories....Pages 75-97
Application of Vortex Theory....Pages 99-119
Application of Computational Fluid Mechanics....Pages 121-157
Experiments....Pages 159-184
Impact of Aerodynamics on Blade Design ....Pages 185-198
Concluding Remarks on Further Developments....Pages 199-202
Back Matter....Pages 203-265

✦ Subjects

Renewable and Green Energy; Engineering Fluid Dynamics; Machinery and Machine Elements