A review is presented of the state of the art in wind turbine rotor aerodynamics. Both the ‘engineering methods’, used in aeroelastic computer programmes, and more fundamental Euler and Navier Stokes are described and reviewed and problem areas in urgent need of a solution are addressed. An attempt is made to minimise the use of equations in the main text, to access a wider public. The basic equation systems are treated separately in an Appendix.
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H. Snel (1998) studied this question.