Dynamic Stall of a Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine and Its Control Using Plasma Actuation

In this paper, a dynamic stall control scheme for vertical-axis wind turbine (VAWT) based on pulsed dielectric-barrier-discharge (DBD) plasma actuation is proposed using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The trend of the wind turbine power coefficient with the tip speed ratio is verified, and the...

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Main Authors: Lu Ma, Xiaodong Wang, Jian Zhu, Shun Kang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-09-01
Series:Energies
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/19/3738