Steady and rotating computational fluid dynamics simulations of a novel vertical axis wind turbine for small-scale power generation

Renewable Energy

Volumn 41, Issue , 2012, Pages 171-179

  McTavish, S ^a   Feszty, D ^a   Sankar, T ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CFD; RANS; Savonius; VAWT; Wind energy; Wind turbine

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC DESIGN; CFD SIMULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FREE-STREAM; OUTER ROTOR; RANS; SAVONIUS; SAVONIUS ROTOR; SMALL SCALE POWER GENERATION; STATIC TORQUE; TIP SPEED RATIO; TORQUE CHARACTERISTIC; VALIDATION STUDY; VAWT; VERTICAL AXIS WIND TURBINES;

ROTATION; TORQUE; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESIGN METHOD; POWER GENERATION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SOFTWARE; TORQUE; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 84155168062     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2011.10.018     Document Type: Article

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