Aerodynamic performance enhancement and computational methods for H-Darrieus vertical axis wind turbines: Review

Unsteady aerodynamic performance of Dual-Row H-Darrieus vertical axis wind turbine

H-rotor Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) is one of the most efficient energy suppliers which have been investigated in many recent types of research. The aim of this work is to study the aerodynamic performance of a doubled-row H-Darrieus VAWT. First, an ordinary three-bladed VAWT with NACA4415 profile is simulated by means of 3D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and results are compared to a...

Electromechanics of Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

Rossander, M. 2017. Electromechanics of Vertical Axis Wind Turbines. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology 1581. 81 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-513-0117-4. Wind power is an established mean of clean energy production and the modern horizontal axis wind turbine has become a common sight. The need for maint...

Darrieus Wind Turbine Performance Prediction: Computational Modeling

The Vertical Axis Wind Turbines Darrieus is facing a rapid installations growth due to the interest for a decentralizing generation. The Darrieus aerodynamic behavior analysis is a hard computational task. This paper starts by offering an insight into the Darrieus wind turbines performance prediction and proposes an algorithm based on the Multiple Streamtube modeling as a prediction approach in...

Magnetic Suspension and Self-pitch for Vertical-axis Wind Turbines

Aerodynamic Characteristics of Asymmetric Airfoils Blade Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

In this paper, using sliding mesh model, the numerical simulation of small vertical axis wind turbine aerodynamic performance was studied with FLUENT software. Got change rule of four same thickness and different camber‘s NACA series asymmetrical airfoil moment coefficient of the wind turbine and wind power machine with the tip speed ratio. Wind turbine benchmark blade around the flow field was...