Aerodynamic simulation of vertical-axis wind turbines

…, I Akkerman, Y Bazilevs - Journal of Applied …, 2014 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
… with the ambient wind velocity, and impact the tower, as well as the blade that happens to be
in … a major impact on the rotor loads, at least for a chosen set of wind and rotor speeds. The …

Numerical investigation on aerodynamic performance of a novel vertical axis wind turbine with adaptive blades

Y Wang, X Sun, X Dong, B Zhu, D Huang… - Energy Conversion and …, 2016 - Elsevier
wind speed is 10 m/s, the diameter of rotating rotor is 2.5 m, and the surface of turbine blades
… –A turbulence model is adopted for simulation of wind turbine in this paper. This method is …

Dynamic study of a wind turbine blade with horizontal axis

R Younsi, I El-Batanony, JB Tritsch, H Naji… - European Journal of …, 2001 - Elsevier
… Bézier parametric model, these two effects by the addition of an aerodynamic … conditions.
The second extension consists in modeling the air stream through the variation of wind velocity

Structural optimisation of vertical-axis wind turbine composite blades based on finite element analysis and genetic algorithm

L Wang, A Kolios, T Nishino, PL Delafin, T Bird - Composite Structures, 2016 - Elsevier
mechanical properties of these materials are presented in Table 4. It should be noted that
the materials for this study … under a 50-year extreme wind condition (wind speed is 52.5 m/s) …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of some design parameters on the performance of a Giromill vertical axis wind turbine

M El-Samanoudy, AAE Ghorab, SZ Youssef - Ain Shams Engineering …, 2010 - Elsevier
… of 10, airfoil type NACA 0024, and four blades (which is … and computational modeling was
previously studied by Gyulai and … to measure wind speed (air speed), it can also measure wind

Concept of flexible vertical-axis wind turbine with numerical simulation and shape optimization

I Marinić-Kragić, D Vučina, Z Milas - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
energy conversion efficiency. The novel concept is a Savonius-type VAWT with flexible
blades that change their shape passively due to aerodynamic and blade inertial forces during …

A numerical study of blade thickness and camber effects on vertical axis wind turbines

LA Danao, N Qin, R Howell - … : Journal of Power and Energy, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
… angular velocity Ω in a flow of wind speed U ∞ , the velocity of the wind relative to the blade
… 2D CFD simulation of dynamic stall on a vertical axis wind turbine: verification and validation …

Experimental and numerical investigation of aerodynamic performance for vertical-axis wind turbine models with various blade designs

TE Salyers - 2016 - digitalcommons.georgiasouthern …
Air velocity vectors surrounding blades at 0.06s Table 4.3. Pressure … , simulations are
carried out with varying wind conditions and constant rotational speed to verify that the new blade

Experimental study and simulation of a small-scale horizontal-Axis wind turbine

RS Jackson, R Amano - Journal of Energy …, 2017 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
… At this wind speed, rotor torque and thrust were estimated near 0.005 N·m and 0.3 N, …
velocity has a higher deficit. The vertical axis has been normalized by the blade radius with y = 0 …

Experimental and numerical study of turbulence effect on aerodynamic performance of a small-scale vertical axis wind turbine

DW Wekesa, C Wang, Y Wei, W Zhu - … of Wind Engineering and Industrial …, 2016 - Elsevier
… the turbine blade and, ultimately, its aerodynamic performance. In addition, simulations using
a … This is because high wind speeds exert high pressure on the rotor blades that may cause …