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Article

Numerical Investigation of the Savonius Vertical Axis Wind Turbine and Evaluation of the Effect of the Overlap Parameter in Both Horizontal and Vertical Directions on Its Performance

by
Mohammad Ebrahimpour
1,
Rouzbeh Shafaghat
1,*,
Rezvan Alamian
1 and
Mostafa Safdari Shadloo
2
1
Sea-Based Energy Research Group, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, 47148 Babol, Iran
2
CORIA Lab./CNRS, University and INSA of Rouen, 76000 Rouen, France
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Symmetry 2019, 11(6), 821; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym11060821
Submission received: 28 May 2019 / Revised: 18 June 2019 / Accepted: 19 June 2019 / Published: 21 June 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Aero/Hydrodynamics and Symmetry)
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Abstract

Exploiting wind energy, which is a complex process in urban areas, requires turbines suitable for unfavorable weather conditions, in order to trap the wind from different directions; Savonius turbines are suitable for these conditions. In this paper, the effect of overlap ratios and the position of blades on a vertical axis wind turbine is comprehensively investigated and analyzed. For this purpose, two positive and negative overlap situations are first defined along the X-axis and examined at the different tip speed ratios of the blade, while maintaining the size of the external diameter of the rotor, to find the optimum point; then, the same procedure is done along the Y-axis. The finite volume method is used to solve the computational fluid dynamics. Two-dimensional numerical simulations are performed using URANS equations and the sliding mesh method. The turbulence model employed is a realizable K-ε model. According to the values of the dynamic torque and power coefficient, while investigating horizontal and vertical overlaps along the X- and Y-axis, the blades with overlap ratios of HOLR = +0.15 and VOLR = +0.1 show better performances when compared to other corresponding overlaps. Accordingly, the average Cm and Cp improvements are 16% and 7.5%, respectively, compared to the base with a zero overlap ratio.
Keywords: Savonius vertical axis wind turbine; horizontal overlap ratio; vertical overlap ratio; torque coefficient; power coefficient Savonius vertical axis wind turbine; horizontal overlap ratio; vertical overlap ratio; torque coefficient; power coefficient

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Ebrahimpour, M.; Shafaghat, R.; Alamian, R.; Safdari Shadloo, M. Numerical Investigation of the Savonius Vertical Axis Wind Turbine and Evaluation of the Effect of the Overlap Parameter in Both Horizontal and Vertical Directions on Its Performance. Symmetry 2019, 11, 821. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym11060821

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Ebrahimpour M, Shafaghat R, Alamian R, Safdari Shadloo M. Numerical Investigation of the Savonius Vertical Axis Wind Turbine and Evaluation of the Effect of the Overlap Parameter in Both Horizontal and Vertical Directions on Its Performance. Symmetry. 2019; 11(6):821. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym11060821

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Ebrahimpour, Mohammad, Rouzbeh Shafaghat, Rezvan Alamian, and Mostafa Safdari Shadloo. 2019. "Numerical Investigation of the Savonius Vertical Axis Wind Turbine and Evaluation of the Effect of the Overlap Parameter in Both Horizontal and Vertical Directions on Its Performance" Symmetry 11, no. 6: 821. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym11060821

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Ebrahimpour, M., Shafaghat, R., Alamian, R., & Safdari Shadloo, M. (2019). Numerical Investigation of the Savonius Vertical Axis Wind Turbine and Evaluation of the Effect of the Overlap Parameter in Both Horizontal and Vertical Directions on Its Performance. Symmetry, 11(6), 821. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym11060821

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