Open AccessExamination of Savonius VAWT Blade Made of Stainless Steel and Aluminum using Ansys
Author(s) -
M. Saravanan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of engineering and advanced technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2249-8958
DOI - 10.35940/ijeat.c5114.029320
Subject(s) - workbench , turbine blade , structural engineering , vertical axis wind turbine , engineering , chord (peer to peer) , turbine , mechanical engineering , roof , modal analysis , blade (archaeology) , marine engineering , finite element method , computer science , distributed computing , visualization
This paper studies roof mounted savonius type Vertical Axis Wind Turbine systems with the goal of maximizing the efficiency and reducing the cost. The efficiency of the wind turbine depends on the material, shape and angle of the blade. So material plays an important role in the design of wind turbine. In this paper, Stainless Steel and Aluminum material are used to design savonius wind blades of 1 m height and 0.5 m chord length with 4 different arc radii. Modeling software Solid Works is used to model savonius wind blade and static structural and modal analysis of the Stainless Steel and Aluminum blades are done by using ANSYS Workbench software.