Meeting future world energy needs while addressing climatic changes has led to greater
strain on conventional power sources. One of the viable sustainable energy sources is wind …

Wind energy is one of the most promising renewable energy resources for power
generation, and rapid growth has been seen in its acceptance since 2000. The most …

Due to growing interest in wind energy harvesting offshore as well as in the urban
environment, vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) have recently received renewed interest …

Wind tunnel experiments have been conducted with a newly developed two-bladed
Savonius-style wind turbine specifically meant for a small-scale energy conversion. This …

The performance of vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs) are substantially affected by the
phenomenon of dynamic stall which is induced by the variations of angle of attack of rotating …

Small size wind turbines can be attractive from many points of view: the environmental
impact is low, they do not cause instabilities in the power network distribution and they do …

The flow performance of vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs) is significantly deteriorated by
dynamic stall at low tip-speed-ratios (TSR). Dynamic stall occurs periodically during the …

Small wind turbine performance and safety standard for straight-bladed Vertical Axis Wind
Turbine (VAWT) have not been developed in the world because of the lack of fundament …

Horizontal axis wind turbines (HAWTs) are the mainstream of wind power industry in the
world; however, as turbines are becoming bigger, the maintenance of equipments grows …

The power output of two straight-bladed vertical-axis wind turbines is simulated using
computational fluid dynamics (CFD) as well as analyzed and optimized using the Taguchi …