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Savonius wind turbine
About: Savonius wind turbine is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 333 publications have been published within this topic receiving 6521 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, a two-bladed turbine is tested in an open type test section and its performance is assessed in terms of power and torque coefficients, and the effects of Reynolds number on the dynamic and static characteristics are also discussed.
209 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the position of an obstacle shielding the returning blade of the Savonius turbine and possibly leading to a better flow orientation toward the advancing blade is optimized. And the optimization process takes into account the output power coefficient as target function, considers the position and the angle of the shield as optimization parameters, and relies on Evolutionary Algorithms.
206 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the aerodynamic performance and flow fields of Savonius rotors at various overlap ratios have been investigated by measuring the pressure distributions on the blades and by visualizing the flow fields in and around the rotors with and without rotation.
205 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a wind tunnel test was made on a number of Savonius rotor configurations in wind speeds of 6-9 m/s with variable variables including blade aspect ratio, blade overlap and gap and the effects of adding end extensions, end plates and shielding.
199 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of the buckets overlap ratio of a Savonius wind rotor on the averaged moment and power coefficients, over complete cycles of operation, is discussed, based on the commercial software Star-CCM+.
190 citations