Development and assessment of a method to determine the angle of attack on an operating wind turbine by matching onboard pressure measurements with panel method simulations

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Issue		E3S Web Conf. Volume 312, 2021 76^th Italian National Congress ATI (ATI 2021)


Article Number		08003
Number of page(s)		12
Section		Systems for Sustainable Energy Generation
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202131208003
Published online		22 October 2021

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