Vertical-axis turbine versus cross-flow turbine?

petebachant / CFT-Re-dep-paper

Source files for a journal article analyzing Reynolds number effects on the performance and near-wake of a vertical-axis cross-flow turbine, to be published in Energies.

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Closed petebachant closed 9 years ago

petebachant commented 9 years ago

Most people just call the turbines vertical-axis wind turbines. We may have less impact if prospective readers do not know that they are the same--or that a CFT does not need to be vertical!

wosnik commented 9 years ago

How about: vertical axis (cross-flow) turbine?

petebachant commented 9 years ago

That was how I came up with the title (minus the parentheses). The "vertical-axis" qualifier does further describe the cross-flow turbine, since one could have a horizontal-axis cross-flow turbine.

wosnik commented 9 years ago

Without parenthesis it should be “vertical axis cross-flow turbine”, since vertical is the sub-class to cross-flow.