The global warming threats, the presence of policies on support of renewable energies, and
the desire for clean smart cities are the major drives for most recent researches on …

Wind energy is a well proven and cost-effective technology and expected to be a promising
technology in which industry responds to the environmental targets—so becoming an …

Accurate prediction of the performance of a vertical-axis wind turbine (VAWT) using
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation requires a domain size that is large enough …

This paper presents a CFD model for the evaluation of energy performance and
aerodynamic forces acting on a straight-bladed vertical-axis Darrieus wind turbine. The …

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 …

In the present paper, the authors describe the strategy to develop a 2D CFD model of H-
Darrieus Wind Turbines. The model was implemented in ANSYS Fluent solver to predict …

Vertical axis wind turbines like the Darrieus turbine appear to be promising for the conditions
of low wind speed, but suffer from a low efficiency compared to horizontal axis turbines. A …

This paper presents a 2D computational investigation on the dynamic stall phenomenon
associated with unsteady flow around the NACA0012 airfoil at low Reynolds number (Rec≈ …

To analyze the complex and unsteady aerodynamic flow associated with wind turbine
functioning, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is an attractive and powerful method. In this …

The aerodynamic behavior of a vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) is analyzed by means of
2D particle image velocimetry (PIV), focusing on the development of dynamic stall at …