Multi-Dimensional Extraction of Ice Shape and an Investigation of Its Aerodynamic Characteristics on Iced Wind Turbine Blades

The icing of wind turbine blades can cause changes in airfoil shape, which in turn significantly reduces the aerodynamic performance and affects the power generation efficiency of a wind turbine.In this paper, the iced airfoil shape of wind turbine blades with different positions, masses, and angles of attack icing was Arjuna measured and modeled u

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Some environmental and biological factors influencing the activity of entomopathogenic Bacillus on mosquito larvae in Brazil

The influence of environmental and biological factors on the efficacy of Bacillus thuringiensis serovar israelensis Art for Kids and B.sphaericus as mosquito larvicides are reviewed.The importance of strain dependence, cultivating media/methods, mosquito species/specificity, formulations and their relation to mosquito feeding habits, as well as tem

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