Everything about Blade solidity

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Blade solidityA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Blade solidity optimization of axial turbine in compressed air energy storage systemInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: GameSharkThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Towards optimal aerodynamic design of vertical axis wind turbines: Impact of solidity and number of bladesCited 218 times
5. Go sideways: Slip factorA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Axial fan designA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Towards optimal aerodynamic design of vertical axis wind turbines: Impact of solidity and number of blades

  Abdolrahim Rezaeiha, Hamid Montazeri, Bert Blocken · 2018 · Energy · 218 citations

• Investigation of self-starting and high rotor solidity on the performance of a three S1210 blade H-type Darrieus rotor

  M.A. Singh, A. Biswas, R.D. Misra · 2015 · Renewable Energy · 113 citations

• Blade Offset and Pitch Effects on a High Solidity Vertical Axis Wind Turbine

  Andrzej J. Fiedler, Stephen Tullis · 2009 · Wind Engineering · 112 citations

• Numerical Implications of Solidity and Blade Number on Rotor Performance of Horizontal-Axis Wind Turbines

  Matthew M. Duquette, Kenneth D. Visser · 2003 · Journal of Solar Energy Engineering · 102 citations

• Optimal blade pitch function and control device for high-solidity straight-bladed vertical axis wind turbines

  You-Lin Xu, Yi-Xin Peng, Sheng Zhan · 2019 · Applied Energy · 46 citations

• Solidity and Blade Number Effects on a Fixed Pitch, 50 W Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine

  Matthew M. Duquette, Jessica Swanson, Kenneth D. Visser · 2003 · Wind Engineering · 30 citations

• Experimental investigation of the effect of blade solidity on micro-scale and low tip-speed ratio wind turbines

  M. Bourhis, M. Pereira, F. Ravelet · 2023 · Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science · 23 citations

• Correlation of solidity and curved blade in compressor cascade design

  Wenjuan Xu, Xin Du, Songtao Wang · 2018 · Applied Thermal Engineering · 20 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Blade solidity optimization of axial turbine in compressed air energy storage system

  Jun Xiong, Yangli Zhu, Xing Wang · 2023 · Journal of Energy Storage · 20 citations

• Toward high-lift low-solidity design for incidence tolerant gas turbine blade profile

  Ruifeng Zhang, Weihao Zhang, Mingyu Gan · 2024 · Energy · 14 citations

• Rotor solidity and blade pitch influence on horizontal axis small wind turbine performance – Experimental study

  Michal Kulak, Michal Lipian, Krzysztof Olasek · 2024 · Energy Reports · 14 citations

• Experimental investigation of solidity and blade profile effects on H-Darrieus wind rotor: Performance and self-starting analysis

  Kanthala Uma Reddy, Bachu Deb, Bidesh Roy · 2023 · Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy · 9 citations

• Impact of rotor solidity and blade number on wake characteristics of vertical-axis wind turbines

  Redili Yushan, Dai Zhou, Rui Zhang · 2025 · Physics of Fluids · 7 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• GameSharkNick Roberts, Prima Games · 1997
• Winsor McCayWinsor McCay · 2003
• 📕Cold-air performance of a 12.766-centimeter-tip axial-flow cooled turbineJeffrey E. Haas · 1977
• 📕Advanced design and manufacturing technology IHun Guo · 2010
• The Video Games GuideMatt Fox · 2006
• 📕Crochet solid Ejingu & Blade for the first time 100 fluttering, chestnut-Colo ISBN
• 📕The 2006-2011 World Outlook for Power Circular Solid-Tooth Saw Blades for Woodworking · 2005
• 📕The development of a modified Z-blade mixer as a novel solid state fermenterStephen Paul Ellis · 1992

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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