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Final Year Project; Vertical Axis Wind Turbine
This is a tutorial to create the 2D geometry of a VAWT using CATIA. (You might want to pause during the video, a lot)
Fluid Analysis is then done on the turbine using ANSYS; a sliding mesh setup is used. The turbine can be optimized using ANSYS, and the results can be used for creating velocity contours and to control servo motors using LabVIEW.
A VAWT prototype is available at the end of the video with a demonstration of how a shaft encoder and