Wind Turbine Design - With Emphasis on Darrieus Concept

This book will be of great interest to students in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering field, professional engineers, university professors and researchers in universities, government and industry. It will also be of interest to all researchers involved in theoretical, computational and experimental methods used in wind turbine design and wind energy development. The book is divided into ten chapters which are presented in a logical manner.
The content is easy to follow and each chapter has its own conclusions. The innovative nature of this book is in its comprehensive review of state-of-the-art in VAWTs, correlation of existing knowledge base and the more recent developments in understanding the physics of flow associated with the Darrieus type vertical axis wind turbine. The principal theories and aerodynamic models for performance calculations are presented with experimental data, not only from laboratory measurements but also from real prototypes.