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In the paper we present state-of-the-art of research in wind turbine aerodynamics. We start be giving a brief historical review and a survey over aerodynamic research in wind energy. Next, we focus on some recent research results obtained by our wind energy group at Department of Mechanical Engineering at DTU. In particular, we show some new results on the classical problem of the ideal rotor and present a series of new results from an on-going research project dealing with the modelling and simulation of turbulent flow structures in the wake behind wind turbines.
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Sørensen, J.N., Mikkelsen, R., Troldborg, N., Okulov, V.L., Shen, W.Z. (2013). The Aerodynamics of Wind Turbines. In: Denier, J., Finn, M. (eds) Mechanics Down Under. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5968-8_15
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