A Wind Turbine for the Slow Dense Surface Wind of Venus: Rotor and Generator Sizing

This study sizes a Wind Turbine for the Slow Dense Surface Wind of Venus for operation in the Venus surface environment and reports the result as SIMULATED, NOT MEASURED. The design is developed from stated physical relations and a shared environmental basis, and every performance figure is computed by the deposited script rather than asserted. Among the computed results are design wind speed of 1.2 metres per second, available wind power at the rotor of 1587.9 watts, power coefficient of 0.34 as a fraction, electric power at design wind of 485.9 watts. Mass and power budgets are assembled from components so that they can be audited, off-design behaviour and materials uncertainty are discussed openly, and the limits of the sizing are stated in full. The system is a civilian science and construction design intended for a robotically serviced surface station.