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Critical issues in the CFD simulation of Darrieus wind turbines

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  1. Franchina, N. & Kouaissah, O. & Persico, G. & Savini, M., 2022. "Three-dimensional modeling and investigation of the flow around a troposkein vertical axis wind turbine at different operating conditions," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 199(C), pages 368-381.
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  4. Dong, Zhikun & Chen, Yaoran & Zhou, Dai & Su, Jie & Han, Zhaolong & Cao, Yong & Bao, Yan & Zhao, Feng & Wang, Rui & Zhao, Yongsheng & Xu, Yuwang, 2022. "The mean wake model and its novel characteristic parameter of H-rotor VAWTs based on random forest method," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 239(PE).
  5. Kuang, Limin & Katsuchi, Hiroshi & Zhou, Dai & Chen, Yaoran & Han, Zhaolong & Zhang, Kai & Wang, Jiaqi & Bao, Yan & Cao, Yong & Liu, Yijie, 2023. "Strategy for mitigating wake interference between offshore vertical-axis wind turbines: Evaluation of vertically staggered arrangement," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 351(C).
  6. Zanforlin, Stefania & Nishino, Takafumi, 2016. "Fluid dynamic mechanisms of enhanced power generation by closely spaced vertical axis wind turbines," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 99(C), pages 1213-1226.
  7. Aya Aihara & Victor Mendoza & Anders Goude & Hans Bernhoff, 2022. "Comparison of Three-Dimensional Numerical Methods for Modeling of Strut Effect on the Performance of a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(7), pages 1-21, March.
  8. Zhu, Haitian & Hao, Wenxing & Li, Chun & Ding, Qinwei & Wu, Baihui, 2018. "A critical study on passive flow control techniques for straight-bladed vertical axis wind turbine," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 165(PA), pages 12-25.
  9. Bundi, Josephat Machoka & Ban, Xiaojun & Wekesa, David Wafula & Ding, Shuchen, 2020. "Pitch control of small H-type Darrieus vertical axis wind turbines using advanced gain scheduling techniques," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 161(C), pages 756-765.
  10. Aktaş, Ahmet & Kırçiçek, Yağmur, 2020. "A novel optimal energy management strategy for offshore wind/marine current/battery/ultracapacitor hybrid renewable energy system," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 199(C).
  11. Balduzzi, Francesco & Drofelnik, Jernej & Bianchini, Alessandro & Ferrara, Giovanni & Ferrari, Lorenzo & Campobasso, Michele Sergio, 2017. "Darrieus wind turbine blade unsteady aerodynamics: a three-dimensional Navier-Stokes CFD assessment," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 128(C), pages 550-563.
  12. Thé, Jesse & Yu, Hesheng, 2017. "A critical review on the simulations of wind turbine aerodynamics focusing on hybrid RANS-LES methods," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 138(C), pages 257-289.
  13. Balduzzi, Francesco & Bianchini, Alessandro & Ferrara, Giovanni & Ferrari, Lorenzo, 2016. "Dimensionless numbers for the assessment of mesh and timestep requirements in CFD simulations of Darrieus wind turbines," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 97(C), pages 246-261.
  14. Hao, Wenxing & Abdi, Abdulshakur & Zhang, Lihui & Li, Chun & Wu, Fuzhong & Mao, Qianyu, 2024. "Performance and mechanism of adaptive pitch control in a floating vertical axis wind turbine with a surge motion," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 308(C).
  15. Peng, H.Y. & Liu, H.J. & Yang, J.H., 2021. "A review on the wake aerodynamics of H-rotor vertical axis wind turbines," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 232(C).
  16. Wang, Xiao-Hang & Foo, Joshua Shyh-Yun & Fazlizan, Ahmad & Chong, Wen-Tong & Wong, Kok-Hoe, 2024. "Effects of endplate designs on the performance of Savonius vertical axis wind turbine," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 310(C).
  17. Xu, Zhongyun & Chen, Jian & Li, Chun, 2023. "Research on the adaptability of dynamic pitch control strategies on H-type VAWT close-range arrays by simulation study," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 218(C).
  18. Santiago Laín & Manuel A. Taborda & Omar D. López, 2018. "Numerical Study of the Effect of Winglets on the Performance of a Straight Blade Darrieus Water Turbine," Energies, MDPI, vol. 11(2), pages 1-24, January.
  19. Cinzia Rainone & Danilo De Siero & Luigi Iuspa & Antonio Viviani & Giuseppe Pezzella, 2023. "A Numerical Procedure for Variable-Pitch Law Formulation of Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines," Energies, MDPI, vol. 16(1), pages 1-20, January.
  20. Wong, Kok Hoe & Chong, Wen Tong & Poh, Sin Chew & Shiah, Yui-Chuin & Sukiman, Nazatul Liana & Wang, Chin-Tsan, 2018. "3D CFD simulation and parametric study of a flat plate deflector for vertical axis wind turbine," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 129(PA), pages 32-55.
  21. Piotr Wiśniewski & Francesco Balduzzi & Zbigniew Buliński & Alessandro Bianchini, 2020. "Numerical Analysis on the Effectiveness of Gurney Flaps as Power Augmentation Devices for Airfoils Subject to a Continuous Variation of the Angle of Attack by Use of Full and Surrogate Models," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(8), pages 1-25, April.
  22. Rosario Lanzafame & Stefano Mauro & Michele Messina & Sebastian Brusca, 2020. "Development and Validation of CFD 2D Models for the Simulation of Micro H-Darrieus Turbines Subjected to High Boundary Layer Instabilities," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(21), pages 1-23, October.
  23. Kamal, Md. Mustafa & Saini, R.P., 2023. "Performance investigations of hybrid hydrokinetic turbine rotor with different system and operating parameters," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 267(C).
  24. Barnes, Andrew & Marshall-Cross, Daniel & Hughes, Ben Richard, 2021. "Towards a standard approach for future Vertical Axis Wind Turbine aerodynamics research and development," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 148(C).
  25. Mauro, S. & Brusca, S. & Lanzafame, R. & Messina, M., 2019. "CFD modeling of a ducted Savonius wind turbine for the evaluation of the blockage effects on rotor performance," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 141(C), pages 28-39.
  26. Santiago Laín & Pablo Cortés & Omar Darío López, 2020. "Numerical Simulation of the Flow around a Straight Blade Darrieus Water Turbine," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(5), pages 1-27, March.
  27. Tang, Lei & Wang, Wenquan & Yan, Yan, 2025. "Blade optimization for hydrodynamic performance improvement of a horizontal axial river current turbine using discrete adjoint method," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 332(C).
  28. Leidy Tatiana Contreras & Omar Dario Lopez & Santiago Lain, 2018. "Computational Fluid Dynamics Modelling and Simulation of an Inclined Horizontal Axis Hydrokinetic Turbine," Energies, MDPI, vol. 11(11), pages 1-23, November.
  29. Kumar, Rakesh & Sarkar, Shibayan, 2022. "Effect of design parameters on the performance of helical Darrieus hydrokinetic turbines," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 162(C).
  30. Rezaeiha, Abdolrahim & Kalkman, Ivo & Blocken, Bert, 2017. "CFD simulation of a vertical axis wind turbine operating at a moderate tip speed ratio: Guidelines for minimum domain size and azimuthal increment," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 107(C), pages 373-385.
  31. Lei, Hang & Zhou, Dai & Lu, Jiabao & Chen, Caiyong & Han, Zhaolong & Bao, Yan, 2017. "The impact of pitch motion of a platform on the aerodynamic performance of a floating vertical axis wind turbine," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 119(C), pages 369-383.
  32. Xu, Wenhao & Li, Gaohua & Zheng, Xiaobo & Li, Ye & Li, Shoutu & Zhang, Chen & Wang, Fuxin, 2021. "High-resolution numerical simulation of the performance of vertical axis wind turbines in urban area: Part I, wind turbines on the side of single building," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 177(C), pages 461-474.
  33. Krzysztof Rogowski & Martin Otto Laver Hansen & Galih Bangga, 2020. "Performance Analysis of a H-Darrieus Wind Turbine for a Series of 4-Digit NACA Airfoils," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(12), pages 1-28, June.
  34. Peng, H.Y. & Liu, M.N. & Liu, H.J. & Lin, K., 2022. "Optimization of twin vertical axis wind turbines through large eddy simulations and Taguchi method," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 240(C).
  35. Liu, Qingsong & Bashir, Musa & Iglesias, Gregorio & Miao, Weipao & Yue, Minnan & Xu, Zifei & Yang, Yang & Li, Chun, 2024. "Investigation of aero-hydro-elastic-mooring behavior of a H-type floating vertical axis wind turbine using coupled CFD-FEM method," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 372(C).
  36. Hansen, Joachim Toftegaard & Mahak, Mahak & Tzanakis, Iakovos, 2021. "Numerical modelling and optimization of vertical axis wind turbine pairs: A scale up approach," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 171(C), pages 1371-1381.
  37. Francesco Balduzzi & Marco Zini & Andreu Carbó Molina & Gianni Bartoli & Tim De Troyer & Mark C. Runacres & Giovanni Ferrara & Alessandro Bianchini, 2020. "Understanding the Aerodynamic Behavior and Energy Conversion Capability of Small Darrieus Vertical Axis Wind Turbines in Turbulent Flows," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(11), pages 1-15, June.
  38. Zheng, H.-D. & Zheng, X.Y. & Zhao, S.X., 2020. "Arrangement of clustered straight-bladed wind turbines," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 200(C).
  39. Zanforlin, Stefania & Deluca, Stefano, 2018. "Effects of the Reynolds number and the tip losses on the optimal aspect ratio of straight-bladed Vertical Axis Wind Turbines," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 148(C), pages 179-195.
  40. Chen, Yunrui & Guo, Penghua & Zhang, Dayu & Chai, Kaixin & Zhao, Chenxi & Li, Jingyin, 2022. "Power improvement of a cluster of three Savonius wind turbines using the variable-speed control method," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 193(C), pages 832-842.
  41. Dessoky, Amgad & Bangga, Galih & Lutz, Thorsten & Krämer, Ewald, 2019. "Aerodynamic and aeroacoustic performance assessment of H-rotor darrieus VAWT equipped with wind-lens technology," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 175(C), pages 76-97.
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  43. Lei, Hang & Zhou, Dai & Bao, Yan & Chen, Caiyong & Ma, Ning & Han, Zhaolong, 2017. "Numerical simulations of the unsteady aerodynamics of a floating vertical axis wind turbine in surge motion," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 127(C), pages 1-17.
  44. Liu, Qingsong & Miao, Weipao & Ye, Qi & Li, Chun, 2022. "Performance assessment of an innovative Gurney flap for straight-bladed vertical axis wind turbine," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 185(C), pages 1124-1138.
  45. Li, Gang & Li, Yidian & Li, Jia & Huang, Huilan & Huang, Liyan, 2023. "Research on dynamic characteristics of vertical axis wind turbine extended to the outside of buildings," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 272(C).
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  48. Acarer, Sercan, 2020. "Peak lift-to-drag ratio enhancement of the DU12W262 airfoil by passive flow control and its impact on horizontal and vertical axis wind turbines," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 201(C).
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  53. Donghai Zhou & Xiaojing Sun, 2021. "Influences of Geometrical Parameters of Upstream Deflector on Performance of a H-Type Vertical Axis Marine Current Turbine," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(14), pages 1-14, July.
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