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Wells turbine
About: Wells turbine is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2094 publications have been published within this topic receiving 28695 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, a very small wind turbine system for multi-purposes was developed and its performance was reported in a particle image velocimetry with a rotor diameter of the turbine is 500 mm, and tests of the energy output, turbine speed, power coefficient, and torque of turbine were carried out for a wide rage of free stream velocity.
112 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a high-solidity vertical axis wind turbine, with dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuators installed on the blade leading-edges, was built and tested in a low-speed wind tunnel.
111 citations
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31 Mar 2004TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a design concept by which the power, loads and/or stability of a wind turbine may be controlled by typically fast variation of the geometry of the blades using active geometry control (e.g. smart materials or by embedded mechanical actuators), or using passive geometry control, or by a combination of the two methods.
Abstract: The present invention relates to a design concept by which the power, loads and/or stability of a wind turbine may be controlled by typically fast variation of the geometry of the blades using active geometry control (e.g. smart materials or by embedded mechanical actuators), or using passive geometry control (e.g. changes arising from loading and/or deformation of the blade) or by a combination of the two methods. The invention relates in particular to a wind turbine blade, a wind turbine and a method of controlling a wind turbine.
110 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the influence of the turbine aerodynamic design on the overall plant performance, as affected by the turbine peak efficiency and the range of flow rates within which the turbine can operate efficiently.
109 citations
TL;DR: In this article, an optimization procedure is carried out by coupling an in-house optimization library (OPAL (OPtimization ALgorithms)) with an industrial CFD code (ANSYS-Fluent).
106 citations