Examination of the Effect of Triangular Plate on the Performances of Reverse Rotating Dual Savonius Wind Turbines

In the present study, the performance of the Savonius wind turbine in designs with dual turbines rotating opposite to each other was examined. To improve the performance of the Savonius wind turbine in the dual turbine design, a triangular plate was placed in front of the turbines. The effects of the geometric parameters of this triangular plate which was placed on the turbine performance were studied. The numerical analyses performed were confirmed by the experimental data of a previous study in the literature. The performance values of Savonius wind turbines were analyzed by numerical analysis, the accuracy of which was proven by experimental data. ANSYS Fluent, a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) program, was used for the performance analysis. In the first stage, the maximum power coefficient (Cp) of the conventional Savonius wind turbine was obtained around 0.17. With the optimum geometric parameter studies, the maximum power coefficient of the Savonius wind turbine in the triangular plate dual turbine design was determined to be around 0.22. Thus, it was found that the power coefficient obtained by a single Savonius wind turbine in a triangular plate dual turbine design was around 30% higher compared to the power coefficient of the conventional Savonius wind turbine.

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