Focusing on aerodynamics of wind turbines with topics ranging from fundamentals to application of horizontal axis wind turbines, this book presents advanced topics including: Basic Theory for Wind turbine Blade Aerodynamics, Dynamics-Based Health Monitoring and Control of Wind Turbine Rotors, Experimental Testing of Wind Turbines Using Wind Tunnels with an Emphasis on Small-Scale Wind Turbines Under Low-Reynolds Numbers, Computational Methods, Ice Accretion for Wind Turbines and Influence of Some Parameters, and Special Structural Reinforcement Technique for Wind Turbine Blades. Because of its comprehensive coverage, "Aerodynamics of Wind Turbines" will attract readers not only from the wind energy community but also those in the gas turbines, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics communities.

Aerodynamics of Wind Turbines: Emerging Topics (Wit Transactions on State-of-the-Art in Science and Engineering)

Engineering & Transportation

R. S. Amano

Engineering

Wit Press/Computational Mechanics

Research and development in thermal engineering for power systems are ofsignificant importance to many scientists who work in power-relatedindustries and laboratories. This book focuses on a variety of researchareas including Components of Compressors and Turbines that are used for both electric power systems and aero engines, Fuel Cells, Energy Conversion, and Energy Reuse and Recycling Systems.To be competitive in today's market, power systems need to reduce operating costs, increase capacity, and deal with many other tough issues. Heat Transfer and fluid flow issues are of great significance to power systems.Design & R&D engineers in the power industry will therefore find thisstate-of-the-art book on those issues very useful in their efforts todevelop sustainable energy systems.

Thermal Engineering in Power Systems (Developments in Heat Transfer)

Science & Math

B. Sunden

Physics

This book provides comprehensive chapters on new research and developments in emerging topics in numerical methods in this important field, co-authored by eminent researchers. The book covers such topics as the finite volume method, finite element method, and turbulent flow computational methods. Fundamentals of the numerical methods, comparison of various higher-order schemes for convection-diffusion terms, turbulence modeling, the pressure-velocity coupling, mesh generation and the handling of arbitrary geometries are also presented. Results from engineering applications are provided. The book will be of interest to engineering and scientific researchers in both academia and research organizations, as well as industrial scientists and PhD and MS students working in the areas of gas turbines, heat exchangers, power plants, automobiles and combustion technologies, especially those who develop or use computer codes.

Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer: Emerging Topics (Developments in Heat Transfer Objectives)

Wit Pr/Computational Mechanics

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