Aerodynamic comparison of slotted and non-slotted diffuser casings for Diffuser Augmented Wind Turbines (DAWT)

• Main Authors: Sridhar, Surya, Mohammad Zuber, Shenoy B., Satish, Kumar, Amit, Ng, Eddie Yin Kwee, Radhakrishnan, Jayakrishnan
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Engineering::Mechanical engineering; Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine; Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/157006
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The ability of Horizontal & Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (HAWT & VAWT) to harness the incoming wind is limited due to several factors such as structural constrains, fatigue problems, geographical and ecological issues, noise pollution, vibrational & acoustic losses. Diffuser Augmented Wind...