An extension of the blade element momentum method applied to diffuser augmented wind turbines

DATD do Rio, ALA Mesquita, JRP Vaz… - Energy Conversion and …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
This work presents an innovative approach to the analysis of Diffuser Augmented Wind
Turbines (DAWTs) using the Blade Element Momentum (BEM) Method, Computational Fluid …

An improved approach for performance prediction of HAWT using the strip theory

ALA Mesquita, ASG Alves - Wind Engineering, 2000‏ - journals.sagepub.com
This work reviews briefly the basis of the strip theory or Blade Element/Momentum method
and its most used approaches for design and performance prediction of Horizontal-Axis …