• Ankit Deshwal
• Lakshya Vaid
• Biswajeet Singh Rai
• Karanjit Kachary

The Human demands are increasing day by day and which have to be fulfilled by sufficient supply of resources. One of the demand is of energy, the energy requirement is being fulfilled in many way such as thermal power plants. But, we need an efficient way of generating power which does not affect the environment and doesn’t uses fossil fuels. Wind turbines are one of the way to fulfil the demand. Vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) are standing still, to face the challenges in low wind profile areas. In this study, airfoil from different series were compared to optimise the performance of a VAWT. This study is done to compare the actual coefficient of lift and drag with the experimental values obtained using CFD. This study also states that CFD analysis is a better way than experiments as they are costly and take a lot of time and labour cost to obtain the values. The CFD analysis was done on 2D section of airfoil to obtain the desired result.

VAWT, airfoil design, CFD, Numerical analysis

"CFD Analysis of Airfoils for a VAWT for Low Wind Profile Areas: A Review", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 5, page no.a194-a200, May-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2105023.pdf

"CFD Analysis of Airfoils for a VAWT for Low Wind Profile Areas: A Review", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 5, page no. ppa194-a200, May-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2105023.pdf