Impact of Aerodynamics on Blade Design

Now having introduced all knowledge from fluid mechanics, it is high-time to try to give an overview on what is really used in practical wind turbine blade design. Referring to Chap. 10 and especially Fig. 10.1 we see that with the development of huge off-shore wind turbines up to 170 m rotor diameter, a period of exponential growth has started again after some years of dormancy.