Performance of straight blade, non-articulated vertical axis wind turbine

摘要

This paper presents an application of single stream tube theory to the straight blade, non-articulated vertical axis wind turbine. In addition to the contribution of blades to wind turbine performance, effect of blade support arms is taken into consideration. This paper also presents some examples of the effects of parameters characterizing wind turbine configuration and geometry. Besides, we compared the theory with the experiment; as a result, we confined our applied theory.