Abstract
This paper attempts to analyze performance of the VAWT at different tip
speed ratios (TSR), for different number of blades, at different
velocities and blade pitch angles. The Double Multiple Steam Tube model
was used to find the design parameter of the Giromill Vertical Axis Wind
Turbine after analyzing the performance curves at different solidity
ratios and tip speed ratios. The turbine with radius 1.12m, chord length
0.11m obtained from the DMST model was used for various 2D computational
fluid dynamics simulations. The result showed that the DMST model
over-estimates the value of coefficient of performance than the 2D CFD
analysis. Simulation results shows the dominance of three-bladed
turbine, in performance, over four-bladed turbine at different design
parameters, by around 4.3% for same inlet wind velocity of 4m/s. Also,
the performance of three bladed wind turbine is found to be better for
different wind velocity and it increases at suitable negative blade
pitch angle.