Numerical study of a six-bladed savonius wind turbine

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Emmanuel, Binyet ^a   Jun, Wang ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

CFD; Savonius; vertical axis wind turbine

Indexed keywords

CONVEX PARTS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; POWER COEFFICIENTS; SAVONIUS; SAVONIUS ROTOR; SAVONIUS WIND TURBINE; SELF-STARTING; VERTICAL AXIS WIND TURBINES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EFFICIENCY; ROTORS (WINDINGS); WIND TURBINES;

TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

EID: 80455162287     PISSN: 01996231     EISSN: 15288986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4004549     Document Type: Article

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