Wind power generation and wind turbine design
By: edited by Wei Tong
Publisher: WIT Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Southampton; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 725
ISBN-13: 9781845642051
Subjects: Wind turbines; Wind power; Design and construction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fundamental of wind energy  -- Wei Tong; title: Wind resource and site assessment  -- Wiebke Langreder; title: Aerodynamics and aeroelastics of wind turbines  -- Alois P. Schaffarczyk; title: Structural dynamics of wind turbines  -- Spyros G. Voutsinas; title: Wind turbine acoustics  -- Robert Z. Szasz & Laszlo Fuchs; title: Design and development of megawatt wind turbines  -- Lawrence D. Willey; title: Design and development of small wind turbines  -- Lawrence Staudt; title: Development and analysis of  vertical-axis wind turbines  -- Paul Cooper; title: Direct drive superconducting wind generators  -- Clive Lewis; title: Intelligent wind power unit with tandem wind rotors  -- Toshiaki Kanemoto & Koichi Kubo; title: Offshore wind turbine design  -- Danian Zheng & Sumir Bose; title: New small turbine technologies  -- Hikaru Matsumiya; title: Blade materials, testing methods and structural design  -- Bent F. Sørensten ... [et al.]; title: Implementation of the 'smart' rotor concept  -- Anton W. Hulskamp & Harald E.N. Bersee; title: Optimized gearbox design  -- Ray Hicks; title: Tower design and analysis  -- Biswajit Basu; title: Design of support structures for offshore wind turbines  -- J. van der Tempel ... [et al.]; title: Power curves for wind turbines  -- Patrick Milan ... [et al.]; title: Wind turbine cooling technologies  -- Yanglong Jiang; title: Wind turbine noise measurements and abatement methods  -- Panagiota Pantazopoulou; title: Wind energy storage technologies -- Martin Leahy, David Connolly & Noel Buckley.