Maheri, Alireza; Noroozi, Siamak; Vinney, John - In: Renewable Energy 32 (2007) 10, pp. 1753-1767
This paper presents a method for decoupled design of bend-twist adaptive blades (BTABs) in which the aerodynamic and structural designs take place separately. In this approach the induced twist is considered as an aerodynamic design parameter, whilst its dependency on the structural...