Flow Field and Performance Study of Vertical Axis Savonius Type SST Wind Turbine
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In this paper, a new hybrid power system has been proposed combining the conventional Savonius wind turbine and split channel mechanisms, and a simulation method for predicting their aerodynamic performance using control volume based CFD package of ANSYS CFX.About:
This article is published in Energy Procedia.The article was published on 2017-03-01 and is currently open access. It has received 26 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Savonius wind turbine & Turbine.read more
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Review of savonius wind turbine design and performance
TL;DR: In this paper, the Savonius rotor was used to improve the performance of a wind turbine by optimizing the effects of different geometric parameters and by developing new design, which achieved an improvement in the coefficient of performance of 27.3% compared to the conventional rotor.
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Wind energy conversion system topologies and converters : comparative review
Kotb B. Tawfiq,Arafa S. Mansour,Haitham Saad Mohamed Ramadan,Haitham Saad Mohamed Ramadan,Mohamed Becherif,Elwy E. El-kholy +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative review on the wind energy conversion systems (WECS) is presented, where the horizontal and vertical types of wind turbines with their mathematical dynamic models are discussed.
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A review of the optimization studies for Savonius turbine considering hydrokinetic applications
TL;DR: In this article, a review of the optimization studies of Savonius turbine regarding its probable applications in harnessing hydrokinetic energy is presented, and the studies concerning each of the structural parameters influencing the turbine performance are discussed thoroughly.
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Numerical investigation of conventional and tapered Savonius hydrokinetic turbines for low-velocity hydropower application in an irrigation channel
TL;DR: In this article, a sliding mesh technique was used to study the influence of taper on conventional and tapered turbine blades for hydrokinetic power generation and the results showed that a 5% increase in the performance of a conventional turbine as compared to tapered turbines with a taper angle of 5° was achieved.
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A computational study on the aerodynamic performance of modified savonius wind turbine
TL;DR: In this paper, the performance of a modified Savonius wind turbine was investigated by using ANSYS-Fluent for computational analysis using a 2-dimensional rotor blade model.
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Discussion on the verification of the overlap ratio influence on performance coefficients of a Savonius wind rotor using computational fluid dynamics
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