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Wind energy is a commercially proven and rapidly developing type of electricity generation. Wind power plants with a vertical axis are more attractive and better suited for use in cities and urban environments where wind flow is less predictable compared to widespread wind power plants with a horizontal axis of rotation. This makes them a much better choice for both ground installation and/or for mounting on buildings and roofs that would otherwise limit the installation of higher horizontal turbine structures. The paper describes an experimental study of the drag force and its coefficient for wind turbines with a vertical axis of rotation. The object of the study is a laboratory model of a wind turbine with blades made in the form of rotating cylinders with a fixed blade. Experimental studies were carried out in the T-1-M wind tunnel, measurements of aerodynamic force were carried out using three-component scales. A distinctive feature of the work is the combined use of the lifting force of the cylinders, as well as the lifting force of the fixed plate. Due to this solution, when comparing with existing wind turbines with a vertical axis of rotation, it was found that the wind turbine in question prevails by 25‒100 % in the number of revolutions. The dependences of the drag force on the flow velocity and the drag coefficient on the Reynolds number from 1·104 to 4·104 are obtained. An uncertainty analysis was also carried out in order to determine the uncertainty by type A, B and the total uncertainty, from which it was found that the measurement error was 1.13 %. The field of the practical application of the results obtained in laboratory studies will be useful in the development of prototypes of wind turbines with a vertical axis of rotation

The article considers the influence of the relative roughness of a cylindrical blade on aerodynamic characteristics. It is known that the operation basis of blades under consideration is the Magnus effect, which is characterized by appearance of a lifting force (Magnus force), when the cylinders rotate in a transverse flow. This force is used to rotate the wind wheel, similar to lifting force, but can have a much larger value when selecting optimal conditions, both geometric and aerodynamic. The authors conducted a comparative analysis of cylinder layout with a relative roughness (0.005 ÷ 0.02). Experimental studies of aerodynamics process of rotating cylinders were carried out in the aerodynamic laboratory using the T-1-M wind tunnel at an air flow value of 5 to 15 m/s. Graphs of dependences of rotating cylinder's lifting force and drag force on the changing air flow velocity and on relative roughness, k/d, are obtained. For further study experimental cylinder layout’s aerodynamic parameters, the most optimal is the variant with a relative roughness value of 0.02, which had high indicators, was selected. In the course of experimental studies, graphs of the dependence of the values of lift and drag force on the angles of attack of a single rotating cylinder with a rough surface on the speed and angle of attack of the wind flow (0°, 30° and 60°) were obtained. It is established that the effective angle of attack is 0°, at which aerodynamic characteristics’s maximum values were obtained.

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