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Performance and Feasibility Analysis of a Wind Turbine Power System for Use on Mars

Author
Viterna, Larry
Published
September 1999.
Physical Description
1 electronic document
Additional Creators
Lichter, Matthew D.
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Summary
A wind turbine power system for future missions to the Martian surface was studied for performance and feasibility. A C++ program was developed from existing FORTRAN code to analyze the power capabilities of wind turbines under different environments and design philosophies. Power output, efficiency, torque, thrust, and other performance criteria could be computed given design geometries, atmospheric conditions, and airfoil behavior. After reviewing performance of such a wind turbine, a conceptual system design was modeled to evaluate feasibility. More analysis code was developed to study and optimize the overall structural design. Findings of this preliminary study show that turbine power output on Mars could be as high as several hundred kilowatts. The optimized conceptual design examined here would have a power output of 104 kW, total mass of 1910 kg, and specific power of 54.6 W/kg.
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Collection
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
Note
Document ID: 19990081125.
E-11819.
NASA/TM-1999-209390.
NAS 1.15:209390.
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