Transient torque and power number of a fluid agitator for direct wind thermal energy conversion
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The present research explores a novel method for direct conversion of wind power to heat through fluid agitation for decentralized heating in remote or off-grid areas. An experimental setup was designed to study the torque and power characteristics of the fluid agitator. Two different impellers were tested under various dynamic conditions, including acceleration, deceleration, and sinusoidal speed variations. The results demonstrate that the agitator’s power number under transient conditions differs significantly from its steady-state values. This finding is crucial for properly matching the agitator to a wind turbine, ensuring efficient energy transfer. Moreover, it was found that the transient power number is more sensitive to acceleration rates than to deceleration. When operated under a sinusoidal speed profile, both the frequency and amplitude of the speed variation strongly influence system performance. Temperature measurements of the working fluid confirmed that applying a sinusoidal speed profile leads to higher heat generation compared to constant-speed operation. These findings provide valuable insights for designing practical wind-powered thermal systems.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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