封面
Abstract
摘要
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Background, Objective and Significance of the study
1.2 Historical background of wind energy
1.3 Wind energy and its prospect
1.4 Energy demand world wide
1.5 Status of Wind energy worldwide
1.6 Statement of the problem
1.7 Main structure of the Thesis
Chapter 2 Review of Vertical Axis Wind Turbines
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs)
2.3 Performance prediction of VAWTs
2.4 Review of Issues confronted with VAWTs
2.5 Summary
Chapter 3 Proposed Self-starting Design concept and Computational Analysis
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Proposed self- starting approaches
3.3 Computational analysis of the proposed self- starting approaches
3.4 Computational analysis results
3.5 Performance Comparison of the proposed approaches based on computational analysis results
3.6 Summary
Chapter 4 Prototype Turbine model Design
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Design Parameters of Prototype model
4.3 Trailing tail inclination mechanism Design
4.4 Part Description of the Turbine model
4.5 Summary
Chapter 5 Turbine blade Manufacturing and Inspection
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Blade Material and the Required Properties
5.3 Blade manufacturing
5.4 Inspection of the turbine blade
5.5 Inspection results and discussion
5.6 Summary
Chapter 6 Wind Tunnel test
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Experimental set up
6.3 Wind tunnel test result and discussion
6.4 Summary
Conclusion and Recommendations
结论与建议
References
Appendices
Publications
Declaration
Acknowledgments
Resume