Airfoils and method for designing airfoils

Wei Jun Zhu (Inventor), Xudong Wang (Inventor), Jens Nørkær Sørensen (Inventor), Wen Zhong Shen (Inventor), Jiangtao Cheng (Inventor), Jin Chen (Inventor)

Research output: Patent

Abstract

The present invention relates to airfoils and design and design optimization of airfoils, in particular airfoils of rotor blades for wind turbines. One aspect of the invention relates to an airfoil with an external shape provided by an airfoil profile defined by a limited number of parameters, such as a set of parameters. Another aspect of the invention relates to a method for designing an airfoil by means of an analytical airfoil profile, said method comprising the step of applying a conformal mapping to a near circle in a near circle plane, wherein the near circle is at least partly expressed by means of an analytical function, said conformal mapping transforming the near circle in the near circle plane to the airfoil profile in an airfoil plane. L
Original languageEnglish
Patent numberCN101898644 A
Filing date01/12/2010
Country/TerritoryChina
Publication statusPublished - 2010

Bibliographical note

Patent:
Country: International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
No.: WO10136357
Date: 2010-12-02

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