Vortex model for wind turbine loads and performance evaluation

Vortex theory is used to form a basis for calculation of the deceleration of the flow through a wind turbine rotor or the acceleration of this flow through a propeller disk. Advice for practical application of the trailing vortex sheet concentration, behind the blades, is given. This report is to be considered a draft report whose finishing touches and numerical methods consequences are still missing due to lack of continued funding.