Zhu, Wei Jun; Shen, Wen Zhong; Sørensen, Jens Nørkær - In: Renewable Energy 70 (2014) C, pp. 172-183
This paper presents an integrated method for designing airfoil families of large wind turbine blades. For a given rotor diameter and a tip speed ratio, optimal airfoils are designed based on the local speed ratios. To achieve a high power performance at low cost, the airfoils are designed with...