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Amani I. Altmimi, Mustafa Alaskari, Oday Ibraheem Abdullah, Ahmed Alhamadani and Jenan S. Sherza
Wind energy is considered one of the most important sources of renewable energy in the world, because it contributes to reducing the negative effects on the environment. The most important types of wind turbines are horizontal and vertical axis wind turb...
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Li Zou, Kun Wang, Yichen Jiang, Aimin Wang and Tiezhi Sun
Owing to the rapid development of the offshore wind power technology and increasing capacity of wind turbines, vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs) have experienced a great development. Nevertheless, the VAWT wake effect, which affects the power generatio...
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Yichen Jiang, Chenlu He, Peidong Zhao and Tiezhi Sun
Vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) is a competitive power generation device due to structural simplicity, wind direction independence, no yaw mechanism required, easier maintenance, and lower noise emission. However, blade tip vortex will be generated at ...
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Nicoletta Franchina, Otman Kouaissah, Giacomo Persico and Marco Savini
The paper presents the results of a computational study on the aerodynamics and the performance of a small-scale Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) for distributed micro-generation. The complexity of VAWT aerodynamics, which are inherently unsteady and th...
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Palanisamy Mohan Kumar, Krishnamoorthi Sivalingam, Teik-Cheng Lim, Seeram Ramakrishna and He Wei
The objective of the current review is to present the development of a large vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) since its naissance to its current applications. The turbines are critically reviewed in terms of performance, blade configuration, tower desig...
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Samir Deshmukh,Sagar Charthal
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Wind energy is the kinetic energy associated with movement of large masses of air. These motions result from uneven heating of atmosphere by sun creating temperature, density, pressure differences. It is an indirect form of solar energy The device used t...
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Qian Cheng, Xiaolan Liu, Ho Seong Ji, Kyung Chun Kim and Bo Yang
Vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) are gradually receiving more and more interest due to their lower sensitivity to the yawed wind direction. Compared with straight blades VAWT, blades with a certain helicity show a better aerodynamic performance and le...
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Senad Apelfröjd, Sandra Eriksson and Hans Bernhoff
This paper presents a review of over a decade of research on Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWTs) conducted at Uppsala University. The paper presents, among others, an overview of the 200 kW VAWT located in Falkenberg, Sweden, as well as a description of ...
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Eduard Dyachuk and Anders Goude
The complex unsteady aerodynamics of vertical axis wind turbines (VAWT) poses significant challenges to the simulation tools. Dynamic stall is one of the phenomena associated with the unsteady conditions for VAWTs, and it is in the focus of the study. Tw...
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Andrew Shires
There has been a resurgence of interest in the development of vertical axis wind turbines which have several inherent attributes that offer some advantages for offshore operations, particularly their scalability and low over-turning moments with better a...
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