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Wind Power for the World
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Wind Power for the World

by Preben Maegaard, Anna Krenz, Wolfgang Palz
June 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
676 pages
20h 39m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Wind Power for the World
The discovery of the vacuum force on windmill sails super-
seded the idea of making the total front sail area of a rotor
as large as possible. The Danish meteorologist, inventor and
college Professor, Poul la Cour (1846–1908), made a breakthrough
in the understanding of the forces on windmill sails. His research
on mill models in front of two wind tunnels took place over
the period 1896–1900. He developed a concept called the “ideal”
sail. How did he do that? What were the improvements? What
were the consequences? Before his aerodynamic research, la
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ISBN: 9789814364935