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Experiments

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This chapter describes methods and results which have been applied to gain insight into the physics of wind turbine flow by performing experiments.

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    This code is comparable to the so-called Eppler code [25], developed somewhat earlier and was extended to include 3D effect from stall-delay for rotation in [26].

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    Roughly speaking, this is the ratio where a small disturbance has grown to a relevant size.

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    In [52, 53] even a much lager range of \(\nu < 500\) Hz is excluded.

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Schaffarczyk, A.P. (2014). Experiments. In: Introduction to Wind Turbine Aerodynamics. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36409-9_8

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