This article discusses a hardware and software complex for the study of aerodynamics and electromechanical characteristics of wind turbines (WPP) with a vertical axis of rotation. The created laboratory stand makes it possible to carry out experimental studies of the developed wind power plants, to obtain the dependences of the angular speed of rotation of the rotor and the consumed electric power on the wind speed. To demonstrate the efficiency of the considered vortex-type wind turbine, the corresponding prototypes of wind turbines with a power of 0.2 kW and 1.2 kW were designed and assembled, and their full-scale tests were carried out. The developed software makes it possible to carry out numerical simulation of the motion of a wind turbine with an unsteady undisturbed wind flow, taking into account the mass-inertial characteristics of the installation and the nature of the moment of resistance to the rotation of its rotor. Experimental and numerical results obtained using the developed hardware-software complex are presented and compared. These results indicate the possibility of using such a complex as an effective tool for the development of wind turbines with a vertical axis of rotation.
Keywords: wind power plant, experimental research, software and hardware complex, numerical modeling, numerical methods of dynamics of continuous media