Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Helical Savonius wind turbine shape

The following figure shows the shape of Helical Savonius wind turbine with twist angle (torsion angle) of 180 degrees. This turbine is composed of two blades and the blade section is semi-circular. Those blades were drawn using Autodesk Inventor 2010 using coil feature defined by revolution (0.5 revolution) and height.