Review on the numerical investigations into the design and development of Savonius wind rotors

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 24, Issue , 2013, Pages 73-83

  Roy, Sukanta ^a   Saha, Ujjwal K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Savonius rotor; Soft computing technique; Turbulence modeling; Wind energy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODOLOGY; DISTRIBUTED WIND ENERGIES; LARGE-SCALE EXPERIMENTATIONS; LOW WIND SPEED CONDITION; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SAVONIUS ROTOR; SOFTCOMPUTING TECHNIQUES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EFFICIENCY; ENERGY POLICY; EXPERIMENTS; TURBULENCE MODELS; WIND POWER;

DESIGN;

EID: 84876123322     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2013.03.060     Document Type: Review

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