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Wind Turbine and Propeller Aerodynamics—Analysis and Design

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Wind turbines and propellers are very similar from the aerodynamics point of view, the former extracting energy from the wind, the latter putting energy into the fluid to create a thrust. The main part of this chapter will be devoted to wind turbine analysis and design, as this is currently a major area of research. But much of the theory and numerics is applicable to propellers. Section 10.9 will discuss some results pertinent to propellers. By convention, the power absorbed by a wind turbine rotor will be negative, whereas, that provided by the power plant of a propeller driven system will be positive.

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One of the authors (JJC), acknowledges that part of the material in this chapter was originally published in the International Journal of Aerodynamics, Ref. [21].

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Chattot, J.J., Hafez, M.M. (2015). Wind Turbine and Propeller Aerodynamics—Analysis and Design. In: Theoretical and Applied Aerodynamics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9825-9_10

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