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Nautilus wind mill
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Recently I found a promising new wind mill design for an urban wind turbine based on the magic of the nautilus (logarithmic) spiral.
http://www.gizmag.com/the-archimedes-liam-f1-urban-wind-turbine/32263/
To get some imagination about how the flow will behave in this kind of turbine I decided to do a quick flat design of that spiral and to print a CW and CCW version of it. The results were indeed surprising ...
This is a run of my counter rotating double wheel test mill:
http:/
http://www.gizmag.com/the-archimedes-liam-f1-urban-wind-turbine/32263/
To get some imagination about how the flow will behave in this kind of turbine I decided to do a quick flat design of that spiral and to print a CW and CCW version of it. The results were indeed surprising ...
This is a run of my counter rotating double wheel test mill:
http:/
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