Addendum to a catalog of low Reynolds number airfoil data for wind turbine applications

Technical Report · Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1985

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5801393· OSTI ID:5801393

Miley, S J

The prediction of wind turbine performance requires airfoil data at Reynolds numbers lower than those used for aircraft operation. A Catalog of Low Reynolds Number Airfoil Data for Wind Turbine Applications, published in 1982 by Rockwell International Corporation, included airfoil data up to a Reynolds number of 3,000,000. After the catalog was finished, it was brought to the author's attention that the cubic spline fitting routine used in generating the curves from discrete data caused inaccuracies in some of the airfoils. A point-to-point curve fitting routing produced more accurate results. This addendum corrects the daag data for the affected airfoils, and is formatted to correlate with the original catalog.

• Research Organization: Texas A and M Univ., College Station (USA). Dept. of Aerospace Engineering
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-83CH10093
• OSTI ID: 5801393
• Report Number(s): SERI/STR-217-2584; ON: DE85008784
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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