In 2017 we began a project to design a small wind turbine for high speed, marine environment, dedicated to racing multihulls.
The goals were to have a high efficiency propeller to minimize the drag and to be able to withstand a large range of wind speed : 15 to 60 knots.
We designed the blades with our VLM code with simply changing the fluid parameters to air and then optimized the shape with OpenFOAM.
The current design is a variable pitch propeller, made in carbon fiber.
