Design of Wind Turbine Blade for Solar Chimney Power Plant

Summary

Proposes a procedure for shaping the turbine blades of a solar chimney power plant to raise its electricity output. A NACA airfoil is chosen and refined with CST parameterization and Xfoil. Blade element theory then sets chord and blade angles iteratively, with a Prandtl tip-loss correction, before the geometry is modelled in CAD.

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