This paper presents a study on the performance of a wind turbine with two counterrotating (CRWT) rotors. The characteristics of the two counter-rotating rotors are on a 3bladed Nordtank 500 kW rotor. The analysis has been carried out by using an Actuator Line technique implemented in the Navier-Stokes code EllipSys3D. The analysis shows that the Annual Energy Production can be increased to about 43.5 %, as compared to a wind turbine with a single rotor. In order to determine the optimal settings of the CRWT turbine, parameters such as distance between two rotors and rotational speed have been studied.

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