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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-1537-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-1537-2020
Research article
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10 Nov 2020
Research article |  | 10 Nov 2020

Identification of airfoil polars from uncertain experimental measurements

Chengyu Wang, Filippo Campagnolo, and Carlo L. Bottasso

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Bottasso, C. L. and Campagnolo, F.: Wind Tunnel Testing of Wind Turbines and Farms, in: Handbook of Wind Energy Aerod., edited by: Stoevesandt, B., Schepers, G., Fuglsang, P., and Sun, Y., Springer Nature, Switzerland, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05455-7, 2020. a, b
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A new method is described to identify the aerodynamic characteristics of blade airfoils directly from operational data of the turbine. Improving on a previously published approach, the present method is based on a new maximum likelihood formulation that includes errors both in the outputs and the inputs. The method is demonstrated on the identification of the polars of small-scale turbines for wind tunnel testing.
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