Design of a stealth wind turbine

Author

Hamel, Philippe ; Adam, Jean-Pierre ; Kubicke, Gildas ; Pouliguen, P.

Author_Institution

IEEA, Courbevoie, France

fYear

2012

fDate

12-13 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A hybridization method of Geometrical Optics and Physical Optics (POGO) has been developed to calculate the radar cross section (RCS) of electrically large targets. The GO technique takes high order interactions into account while the PO technique allows to get rid of caustics problems. This hybrid technique is well suited to calculate the field radiated by meteorological radars and backscattered by wind turbines. These radars, having to estimate the clouds speed by calculating the Doppler effects, are very sensitive to moving targets as explained in [1].

Keywords

geometrical optics; meteorological radar; physical optics; radar cross-sections; wind turbines; Doppler effects; RCS; caustics problems; geometrical optics; hybridization method; meteorological radars; moving targets; physical optics; radar cross section; stealth wind turbine; wind turbines; Antennas; Blades; Geometry; Materials; Poles and towers; Rotors; Wind turbines; Geometrical Optics (GO); Numerical modeling; Physical Optics (PO); Radar Cross Section (RCS); ray tracing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Conference (LAPC), 2012 Loughborough

Conference_Location

Loughborough

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2218-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-2219-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LAPC.2012.6403021

Filename

6403021