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Repository for my PhD thesis.
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Discuss how RVAT was designed to be simple not efficient #143

Closed petebachant closed 8 years ago

petebachant commented 8 years ago

From @wosnik:

Add in section 2.6, p.34:

It should be noted that the UNH RVAT was not designed to have the highest power coefficient possible, only to provide a high fidelity data set for a simple turbine model at reasonably high blade chord Reynolds numbers. The power coefficient for higher-solidity turbines of this type is quite sensitive to blade mounting location, and can likely be improved.

(or something like that) II think it is important to state this, maybe even add it to the github repository README - I’ve gotten comments on how this is not a very good turbine rotor….