README.md

UNH-RVAT baseline performance and near-wake measurements

This repository contains the processing and plotting code, as well as the derived data set from the UNH-RVAT tow tank measurements performed in Spring 2013.

Download/usage

To download, use the git clone URL to the right. For example, in a terminal

git clone https://github.com/UNH-CORE/UNH-RVAT-baseline.git

To generate plots, use functions in the plotting module. See this IPython notebook for examples.

To contribute back to the main repository, use GitHub's fork/pull mechanism.

Dependencies

• NumPy
• SciPy
• matplotlib
• pandas
• pyTDMS (for processing raw data)
• PXL

To install all:

pip install -r requirements.txt

How to cite

Please cite

@Misc{Bachant2014_data,
  Title                    = {UNH-RVAT baseline performance and near-wake measurements: Reduced dataset and processing code},
  Author                   = {Peter Bachant and Martin Wosnik},
  HowPublished             = {fig\textbf{share}. http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1080781},
  Month                    = {June},
  Year                     = {2014},
  Doi                      = {10.6084/m9.figshare.1080781},
  Url                      = {http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1080781}
}

Publications

These data were used in the following publications:

Commit f8cc166

@INPROCEEDINGS{Bachant2013
  author = {Bachant, P. and Wosnik, M.},
  title = {Performance and near-wake measurements for a vertical axis turbine
	   at moderate Reynolds number},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the ASME 2013 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting},
  year = {2013},
}

Other resources

Turbine CAD (STEP) files are available at http://figshare.com/articles/UNH_RVAT_CAD_models/1062009

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.