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Design of advanced airfoil families for wind turbines

  • Zuo Wu Li*
  • , Jiang Chen
  • , Bao Chen
  • , Da Bin Chen
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center
  • China Aviation Industry Corporation
  • China Aerodynamic Technique Institute for Astronautic Industry

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Abstract

Due to the tough condition in which the wind turbine is running, the airfoils used to design blade need to be specially designed. We should pay more attention to the aerodynamic properties as high lift, low drag and insensitive to surface roughness. Soupported under the "863" project (2007AA05Z449), two airfoil families have been designed specially for large-scale wind turbine blades through analysis, numerical simulation and wind tunnel test in BeiHang University. Experimental results show the design is successful.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)130-136
Number of pages7
JournalKongqi Donglixue Xuebao/Acta Aerodynamica Sinica
Volume30
Issue number1
StatePublished - Feb 2012

Keywords

  • Airfoil
  • Lift to drag ratio
  • Roughness
  • Wind tunnel experiment
  • Wind turbine

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