This paper presents an approach for the determination of aerodynamic performance characteristics of horizontal-axis wind turbines. The optimum twist of a windmill blade is examined on the basis of elementary blade-element theory. For a given wind speed and blade angular velocity, it is shown...

The Consul distribution introduced by Consul and Shenton (1975), and modified by Islam and Consul (1990) is derived as a bunching model in traffic flow through the branching process and also through the birth-and-death process. Some applications of the model to vehicle bunch size data are also...