Study of a Small Incurved Savonius Wind Rotor: Experimental Validation

摘要

The main objective of this paper is to validate the numerical results developed with the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code. For thus, a small incurved Savonius wind rotor with a height of 300mm and a bucket diameter of 100 mm is designed and built. This rotor is placed in a wind tunnel test section of 400 mm × 400 mm. The prototype is used to estimate the velocity profiles. For thus, a thermal velocity probe anemometer was used to measure the air velocity. The air speed at the tunnel test section was varied between 0 and 17 m.s~(-1). The Conformity between the numerical and the experimental results validate the numerical method developed elsewhere.