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Design of Vertical Axis Wind Turbine in Recent Years—A Short Review

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Though the available models cannot produce the efficiency or power as Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine (HAWT), the Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) design in recent works was reviewed for its aesthetic value and efficiency. This review will be a useful guide to modify available design for any intended purpose or provide a futuristic design which can be efficient in power generation and be an ornamental device. Besides these, the overview of recent researches in the field of wind turbine technology is covered in this book chapter. The work provides the guide to design VAWT with the information about the implementation of farm, reduction of noise, and computational techniques used in recent researches. The review of this kind always has greater importance because of the up to date information about the ongoing researches.

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Abbreviations

VAWT :

Vertical Axis Wind Turbine

VIVWT :

Vortex Induced Vertical Axis Wind Turbine

BWT :

Butterfly Wind Turbine

QMS :

Relative Quadruple-multiple Stream Turbine Model

DFBI :

Dynamic Fluid Body Interaction Method

CU :

Counter Up

ANN :

Artificial Neural Network

ALM :

Actuator Line Model

CR-VAWT :

Co-axial Contra-rotating Vertical Axis Wind Turbine

UDF :

User Defined Function

SHM :

Structural Health Monitoring

HAWT :

Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine

TTWT :

Tornado Type Wind Turbine

OCS :

Overspeed Control System

TSR :

Tip Speed Ratio

CD :

Counter Down

KEPC :

Korea Electric Power Corporation

POD :

Proper Orthogonal Decomposition

C-VAWT :

Conventional Vertical Axis Wind Turbine

FSI :

Fluid Structure Interaction

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Professor Hara Yutaka, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tottori University for his guidance in 2D analysis from Madasamy et al. (2021).

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    Vijayakumar Mathaiyan, S. Srinivasamoorthy, Dong Wong Jung & Sivaranjani Sivalingam

  2. Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore, India

    Vijayanandh Raja & M. Senthilkumar

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Mathaiyan, V., Raja, V., Srinivasamoorthy, S., Jung, D.W., Senthilkumar, M., Sivalingam, S. (2022). Design of Vertical Axis Wind Turbine in Recent Years—A Short Review. In: Bohre, A.K., Chaturvedi, P., Kolhe, M.L., Singh, S.N. (eds) Planning of Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems, Electric Vehicles and Microgrid. Energy Systems in Electrical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0979-5_13

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