An analytical model leading to the pressure distribution on the cross section of a Darrieus Rotor Blade (airfoil) was constructed. The model was based on the inviscid flow theory and the contribution of the nonsteady wake vortices was neglected. The analytical model was translated into a computer code in order to study a variety of boundary conditions encountered by the rotating blades of the Darrieus Rotor. The results of the program indicate that for a pitching airfoil, lift can be adequately approximated by the Kutta-Joukowski forces, despite notable deviations in the pressure distribution on the airfoil. These deviations are most significant at the upwind half of the Darrieus Rotor where higher lift is accompanied by increased adverse pressure gradients. It was also found that the effect of pitching on lift can be approximated by a linear shift in the angle of attack proportional to the blade angular velocity. Finally, the fluid velocity about the pitching-only NACA 0015 was tabulated; thus allowing the principle of superposition to be used in order to determine the fluid velocity about a translating and pitching airfoil. / Graduation date: 1984

This master‘s thesis deals with the simulation of small wind power plant with Savonius-Darrieus rotor. On the base of the actuator disk theory the performance of modeled power plant is predicted in theoretical part and the power coefficient as well. The process of designing the wind model is also described in this theoretical part. The practical part of this thesis is dedicated to the creating a model of DS300 vertical axis hybrid wind turbine in Matlab/Simulink. This model was used to generating of the power curve of modeled wind power plant and for the computing of power and total produced energy during an average and above-average day as well. The whole thesis is enclosed by evaluating of obtained results.