Erratum to “Improving the Power Generation Performance of a Solar Tower Using Thermal Updraft Wind” [Energy and Power Engineering Vol. 6 No. 11 (October 2014) 362-370]

Masataka Motoyama^1*, Yuji Ohya², Takashi Karasudani², Tomoyuki Nagai², Shinsuke Okada¹, Kenichiro Sugitani²

¹Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
²Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.

DOI: 10.4236/epe.2015.76024                

Abstract

The original online version of this article (Masataka Motoyama, Kenichiro Sugitani, Yuji Ohya, et al. (2014) “Improving the Power Generation Performance of a Solar Tower Using Thermal Updraft Wind”, 2014, 6, 362-370. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/epe.2014.611031) was published in October, 2014.The author wishes to correct the following error in text and Figures 9-11.

Keywords

Solar Tower, Thermal Updraft, Wind Turbine, Diffuser

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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