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Making Vawts
For a school project I need to make three types of VAWT turbines: S shaped savonis, h rotor, and helical. I cannot seem to figure out how to make them. It owuld be amazing if someone could make a video or smth or just help me out through this forum. Thanks!
Hi,
to generate a VAWT rotor you need to switch into the “VAWT” mode of QBlade, see: https://docs.qblade.org/src/user/hawtvawtprop/hawtvawtprop.html
The process is then equivalent to the blade design process of the “HAWT” mode which is described in the documentation.
Savonius rotors cannot be modeled in QBlade due to their unique operating principles. These rotors are partially drag-driven, and their performance involves complex fluid dynamics characterized by flow separation. QBlade’s methodologies are not designed to solve such phenomena, making it unsuitable for modeling Savonius rotors.
BR,
David
