Aerodynamic Shape Optimization of Wind Turbine Blades for Reducing Icing Related Power Losses

2018-06-10
26th Annual Conference of the CFD Society of Canada

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Citation Formats
Ö. Yırtıcı, S. Özgen, and İ. H. Tuncer, “Aerodynamic Shape Optimization of Wind Turbine Blades for Reducing Icing Related Power Losses,” presented at the 26th Annual Conference of the CFD Society of Canada, Winnipeg, Kanada, 2018, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/73675.