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Augmentation of Power Output of Axisymmetric Ducted Wind Turbines by Porous Trailing Edge Disks

widnall, sheila; byron, james; florin, peter (2014-06-30)

This paper presents analytical and experimental results that demonstrated that the power output from a ducted wind turbine can be dramatically increased by the addition of a trailing edge device such as a porous disk. In ...
Potential Flow Calculations of Axisymmetric Ducted Wind Turbines

Widnall, Sheila (2009-09-02)

An incompressible potential-flow vortex method has been constructed to analyze the flow field of a ducted wind turbine following that outlined by Lewis (1991). Attention is paid to balancing the momentum change in the ...