Small Wind Turbines

David Wood has Bachelors' and Masters' degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Sydney University and a PhD in Aeronautics from Imperial College, London, UK. He has been Senior Research Associate at NASA Ames Research Centre in California and has spent many years in the Faculty of Engineering at Newcastle University, where he was instrumental in developing a research group in small wind turbine technology. Dr Wood was the Australian representative on the international committee that recently revised the International Electrotechnical Commission safety standard for small wind turbines.  In 2006 he left the University of Newcastle to start Aerogenesis Australia, a small company building small wind turbines.  In February 2010 he was appointed to the Enmax/Schulich Chair of Renewable Energy at the University of Calgary. He is the editor for small turbines and aerodynamics for the journal Wind Engineering and has authored and co-authored over 120 refereed journal and conferencepapers in these areas.  He holds patents on blade and controller design.

1. Introduction to Wind Turbine Technology.- 2. Control Volume Analysis for Wind Turbines.- 3. Blade Element Theory for Wind Turbines.- 4. Aerofoils: Lift, Drag, and Circulation.- 5. Blade Element Calculations.- 6. Starting and Low Wind Speed Performance.- 7. Blade Design, Manufacture, and Testing.- 8. The Unsteady Aerodynamics of Turbine Yaw and Over-speed Protection.- 9. Using the IEC Simple Load Model for Small Wind Turbines.- 10. Tower Design and Manufacture.- 11. Generator and Electrical System.- 12. Site Assessment and Installation.