Design and Shape Optimization of Blade Profile and support-arms for Small Scale Vertical Axis Wind Turbine

In this thesis, blade shape optimization of a vertical axis wind turbine blade was performed. The study consist of 2D and 3D analysis using computational fluid dynamics. 2D shape optimization was performed on a NACA0018 blade using the adjoint solver together with the gradient based optimizer. An or...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Van Stratan, Gavin Scott Manggai
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2023
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/95435