Articles | Volume 4, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-4-653-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-4-653-2019
Research article
 | 
11 Dec 2019
Research article |  | 11 Dec 2019

A double-multiple streamtube model for vertical axis wind turbines of arbitrary rotor loading

Anis A. Ayati, Konstantinos Steiros, Mark A. Miller, Subrahmanyam Duvvuri, and Marcus Hultmark

Download

Interactive discussion

Status: closed
Status: closed
AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment
Printer-friendly Version - Printer-friendly version Supplement - Supplement

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision
AR by Konstantinos Steiros on behalf of the Authors (22 Oct 2019)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (23 Oct 2019) by Raúl Bayoán Cal
RR by Hubert Branger (31 Oct 2019)
RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (05 Nov 2019)
ED: Publish as is (08 Nov 2019) by Raúl Bayoán Cal
ED: Publish as is (12 Nov 2019) by Gerard J.W. van Bussel(Chief editor)
Download
Short summary
This work presents an improvement to a popular algorithm used in the prediction of the power of vertical axis wind turbines. While, until now, the algorithm was considered valid only for low rotor speeds and a small number of blades, our improvement makes it valid for any configuration. The predictions of the improved algorithm were found to be of considerable accuracy, when validated with measurements of a small model turbine acquired in a compressed air wind tunnel.