Wind turbine airfoilsWind turbine airfoilsΑεροτομές ανεμογεννητριών Μεταπτυχιακή Διατριβή Master Thesis 2022-11-072022enThis MSc Thesis, conducted at the School of Production Engineering & Management, Technical University of Crete, deals with the airfoils used for the design and construction of wind turbine blades. The Thesis consists of three chapters. The first chapter is an introduction and a background section, concerning the necessity of renewables in the future of energy production, worldwide. The second chapter describes the various categories of wind turbines that are used today for energy production. The third chapter is the main chapter of this Thesis and contains the various airfoil families that have been developed in the last decades especially for the design and construction of wind turbine blades. Moreover, the specific characteristics of such airfoils are discussed. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης::Σχολή Μηχανικών Παραγωγής και ΔιοίκησηςMersina_Kalliopi_MSc_2022.pdfChania [Greece]Library of TUC2022-11-06application/pdf3.2 MBfree Mersina Kalliopi Μερσινα Καλλιοπη Nikolos Ioannis Νικολος Ιωαννης Delis Anargyros Δελης Αναργυρος Arampatzis Georgios Αραμπατζης Γεωργιος Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης Technical University of Crete Αεροτομές ανεμογεννητριών