Wind energy, together with other renewable energy sources, are expected to grow
substantially in the coming decades and play a key role in mitigating climate change and …

The growing demand for clean, sustainable, and viable energy in the twenty-first century
prompted researchers to focus their efforts on developing renewable-based technologies. In …

Vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) have received growing interest for off-shore application
and in the urban environments mainly due to their omni-directional capability, scalability …

Thanks to the continuous improvement of calculation resources, computational fluid
dynamics (CFD) is expected to provide in the next few years a cost-effective and accurate …

The limited electrical power inherent in rural and remote areas with a narrow width river can
be addressed with the utilization of a Savonius hydrokinetic turbine (HKT) that generates …

Experiments were performed with a large laboratory-scale high solidity cross-flow turbine to
investigate Reynolds number effects on performance and wake characteristics and to …

Cross-flow turbines harness kinetic energy in wind or moving water. Due to their unsteady
fluid dynamics, it can be difficult to predict the interplay between aspects of rotor geometry …

In laboratory experiments involving wind or water turbines, it is often desirable to correct
measured performance for the effects of model blockage. However, there has been limited …

In this experiment, a small scale vertical-axis wind-turbine (VAWT) is immersed in a
boundary-layer in a wind tunnel and stereo particle image velocimetry is employed to …

We present experimental data to demonstrate that the far wake of a vertical-axis wind turbine
(VAWT) exhibits features that are quantitatively similar to that of a circular cylinder with the …