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Segmented ultralight pre-aligned rotor for extreme-scale wind turbines

Loth et al., 2012

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14524047435008906857
Author
Loth E
Steele A
Ichter B
Selig M
Moriarty P
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Publication venue
50th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

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To alleviate the mass-scaling issues associated with conventional upwind rotors of extreme- scale turbines, a downwind rotor concept is proposed which employs fixed blade curvature based on force alignment at rated conditions. For a given peak stress constraint, the …
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