Raciti Castelli, Marco; Englaro, Alessandro; Benini, Ernesto - In: Energy 36 (2011) 8, pp. 4919-4934
This paper presents a CFD model for the evaluation of energy performance and aerodynamic forces acting on a straight-bladed vertical-axis Darrieus wind turbine. The basic principles which are currently applied to BE-M theory for rotor performance prediction are transferred to the CFD code,...