Renewable Energy Engineering HW due on March 12, 2013

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QBLADE: You are apply your new understanding of BEM theory with a publicly available BEM code (QBLADE). Source of photo below: wiki-page.

1. Download guidelines and manual from the following website for QBLADE. http://qblade.de.to/ Another interesting reference is: http://smart-blade.com/fileadmin/downloads/QBladeAE_Thesis.pdf 2. Find out what tip loss models are and summarize one type of approach. 3. Download QBLADE software and unzip the contents. Download file called reference_blade.wpa from the BB site, and load it into the QBLADE software. 4. Follow guidelines to get a POWER CURVE for this blade. Some steps have been done for you!