Wind Tunnel Experimental Study on the Efficiency of Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines via Analysis of Blade Pitch Angle Influence

Inverse Design of Blade Shapes for Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

An inverse design process is applied to determine blade shapes used in vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs). The method is based on the modified Garabedian-McFadden technique that uses the deviation of the pressure distribution or the velocity distribution on the surface from a target pressure or velocity distribution, and modifies the blade surface in order to reduce this deviation. The method ...

Simulation of Vertical Axis Wind Turbines With Variable Pitch Foils

A dynamic computer model of a turbine was developed in MATLAB in order to study the behavior of vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) with variable pitch (articulating) foils. The simulation results corroborated the findings of several empirical studies on VAWTs. The model was used to analyze theories of pitch articulation and to inform the discussion on turbine design. Simulations of various mod...

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

Individual Blade Pitch and Camber Control for Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

In this paper we present a dynamical systems model and control algorithms for a small, vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT). The wind turbine is designed for the domestic market, including regions without very favorable wind conditions. Good performance at low wind speeds is an important requirement for developing an economically viable, suburban VAWT. The performance of a VAWT can be greatly enha...

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...