MODELADO COMPUTACIONAL DE UN GENERADOR EÓLICO BASADO EN UNA TURBINA SAVONIUS MODIFICADA

Abstract

Increasing interest towards the application of renewable energy, wind power has been increased attention by researchers. Studies have been conducted in order to improve the aerodynamic performance of vertical turbines such as turbine Darrieus and turbine Savonius, in this investigation is shown how is provides a computational analysis of the impact of wind on various geometric configurations proposed and studied previously. The dimensions of the turbines are adapted to the geometric relationships previously analyzed and proposed in such a way that respects the original profile of each turbine. The size of each turbine is actually small, since it proposes its application for power generation at low power in arrays that can be placed on mobile devices taking advantage of the wind energy due to the resistance offered to the displacement of the mobile. We conclude that the twisted Savonius turbine arrangement has better performance with respect to the flow analysis performed, however, from the point of view this type of turbine manufacturing is the one with more complexity in its construction. In the future we intend to implement this proposal on mobile devices such as radio control cars, and cars, which require a power supply.