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Andrea Alaimo, Antonio Esposito, Antonio Messineo, Calogero Orlando and Davide Tumino
To analyze the complex and unsteady aerodynamic flow associated with wind turbine functioning, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is an attractive and powerful method. In this work, the influence of different numerical aspects on the accuracy of simul...
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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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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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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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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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Wenping Luo, Weiqin Liu, Meng Yang, Shuo Chen, Xuemin Song and Weiguo Wu
Operating Offshore Floating Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (OF-VAWT) have the potential to perform well in the deep-sea area. Some researchers gave performance prediction by developing simplified computing models. However, these models have imperfections in...
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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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