Divya Tyagi, a Penn State engineering student, has cracked a 100-year-old wind energy equation, refining Glauert’s classical model and significantly improving wind turbine efficiency. Her research, published in Wind Energy Science, introduces a simpler method that incorporates thrust and bending moments acting on rotor blades, offering a new path to better turbine designs. Her findings, based on calculus of variations, could lead to a 1% efficiency increase in wind turbines, with broader implications for renewable energy.
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