Sentence examples for rotor solidity from inspiring English sources
This can be obtained using the equality of rotor solidity [see Eqs. (2), (3)].
Their optimum operating conditions (maximum power coefficient) depend on rotor solidity and tip speed ratio [22].
For a VAWT rotor solidity depends on the number of blades, airfoil chord and rotor radius.
The parametric study relates performance of VAWT to rotor solidity, blade airfoil and pitch amplitude.
There is an optimum rotor solidity at which power coefficient is the highest.
In this paper a three-bladed H-type Darrieus rotor equipped with unsymmetrical S1210 blades is investigated first for its self-starting characteristics with different rotor solidities (from 0.8 to 1.2) at various azimuthal positions.
Another reference [12] explains that a low solidity rotor is intended to obtain a high rotational speed in order to reduce the gearbox ratio.
For a fixed cross-sectional area of the turbine, to optimize the curve of the power coefficient it is possible to use different airfoil sections and/or rotors with different solidity [26].
A reference [13] explains the relation between the tip speed ratio (TSR), a ratio of the turbine rotational speed and the ambient flow velocity, and the solidity of rotor, a ratio of the area of the blades and the rotor swept area.
The chapter concludes with performance curves of various wind turbine designs ranging from high solidity multi-bladed rotors used in wind pumps to the modern three bladed horizontal axis rotors used for electricity generation.
