Wind Turbine Design

As part of a team of engineering students we designed and built a functioning wind turbine. Competing against other teams from our department, we tested our turbines in the University’s twisted flow wind tunnel.

We designed our tubines by building mathematical models of how turbines operate using fluid dynamics equations, building computational models, and writing code to iteratively improve the design of our turbine.

Using our optimised computational design, we physicaly made our turbines using laser cut perspex blades, and a machined central hub.