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 innately renewable, abundant in the earth and can possibly reduce the
dependency on fossil fuels. Wind is an incarnation of sun and is always nourished by the …

Small wind turbines operating at low wind speeds regularly face the problem of poor
performance due to laminar separation and laminar separation bubbles on the blades. This …

A low Reynolds number airfoil was designed for applications in small horizontal axis wind
turbines to achieve better startup and low wind speed performances. Experiments were …

In a continuing effort to enhance the performance of small wind energy systems, one root
airfoil and three primary airfoils were specifically designed for small horizontal axis wind …

Despite the significant progress in the wind energy field, there is always space for new blade
profiles to improve the efficiency and the energy extracted of HAWTs. To improve the …

The demand for renewable energy is driven by the depletion and adverse environmental
impacts of fossil fuels. There is a growing global consensus for research and development of …

A comprehensive study was conducted to explore the effect of the blade airfoil section as
well as the rotor diameter size on the power output of a small-scale wind turbine using finite …

The noise emitted by small wind turbines is one of the main reasons for their poor public
perception for use in urban areas. An optimization study was performed to mitigate the …

This paper discusses some of the major research and development issues for small wind
turbines whose upper power limit we take arbitrarily as 50 kW. The basis for the comparison …