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Flowfield around a partially-blocked Savonius rotor

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  • Kotb, M. A.
  • Aldoss, T. K.

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One way of power augmentation in the case of Savonius rotors is through preventing the upstream flow from reaching the upwind bucket. To gain more insight and a deeper understanding of this mechanism, a discrete vortex method was applied to the behaviour of a Savonius rotor with one bucket shielded. The flow around and past the rotor was computed. The wake characteristics are shown for two case studies; namely, rotating and stationary for a number of rotor angular positions.

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  • Kotb, M. A. & Aldoss, T. K., 1991. "Flowfield around a partially-blocked Savonius rotor," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 38(2), pages 117-132.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:appene:v:38:y:1991:i:2:p:117-132
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    1. Ricci, Renato & Romagnoli, Roberto & Montelpare, Sergio & Vitali, Daniele, 2016. "Experimental study on a Savonius wind rotor for street lighting systems," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 161(C), pages 143-152.
    2. Roy, Sukanta & Saha, Ujjwal K., 2013. "Review on the numerical investigations into the design and development of Savonius wind rotors," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 24(C), pages 73-83.
    3. Altan, Burçin Deda & Atılgan, Mehmet, 2010. "The use of a curtain design to increase the performance level of a Savonius wind rotors," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 35(4), pages 821-829.
    4. Wang, Lu & Yeung, Ronald W., 2016. "On the performance of a micro-scale Bach-type turbine as predicted by discrete-vortex simulations," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 183(C), pages 823-836.

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