Wind tunnel and numerical study of a small vertical axis wind turbine

Robert Howell, Ning Qin, Jonathan Edwards and Naveed Durrani

Renewable Energy, 2010, vol. 35, issue 2, 412-422

Abstract: This paper presents a combined experimental and computational study into the aerodynamics and performance of a small scale vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT). Wind tunnel tests were carried out to ascertain overall performance of the turbine and two- and three-dimensional unsteady computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models were generated to help understand the aerodynamics of this performance.

Keywords: Wind turbine; VAWT; HAWT; Wind tunnel; CFD (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2009.07.025

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