Bio-Inspired Rotor Design Characterization of a Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine

In this paper, the performance of a biomimetic wind rotor design inspired by Petrea Volubilis seed is presented. Experimentation for this rotor is configured as a horizontal axis wind turbine (HAWT) and numerical analysis is done in order to obtain performance curves with the open-source computation...

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Main Authors: J. Gaitan-Aroca, Fabio Sierra, Jose Ulises Castellanos Contreras
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-07-01
Series:Energies
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/14/3515