The novel pre-swirled augmented vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) was designed with the concept of developing a high efficiency VAWT that keeps the advantages of VAWT’s compact size, lack of bias as to incoming wind direction, easy deployment and low radar cross section. The result is the Vortexis Turbine, with a superior power coefficient of 35%, which places it at the top of all VAWT’s currently on the market. In other words, 88% of what's theoretically possible, and making the VAWT Vortexis sustained power output 20-40% greater than any and all VAWT competitors on the market - "period."

The VAWT is composed of a concentric stator and rotor. The rotor is located in the inner region of the turbine and is driven to spin by the flow from the stator around the center of the turbine.There are two end plates on the top and bottom of the turbine to reduce energy loss due to tip vortices.The stator surrounds the rotor in the outer region of the turbine, turns and accelerates the free-stream flow before it strike the rotor. The rotated rotor is connected to the end plate at the bottom, which drives a shaft and a generator to output electric power. There is no shaft in the center of the rotor to reduce energy loss due to jet interaction with the shaft.

The design principle of the VAWT is to produce high power output by generating high turning of
the flow, which is the same design principle as aircraft engine axial turbine based on Euler turbine equation.

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Ten years and over $2 million in R&D has resulted in this revolutionary new patented design. Remarkably, the Vortexis patent is the first of any significance for a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine since the 1931 Darrieus device.

The key differentiation for Vortexis is the stator blades surrounding the rotating airfoils. They perform what we call the Vortexis "Pre-Swirl" Augmented push of the wind into the rotor. This maximizes the total performance of the system. This novel airfoil was designed and developed by engineers at Wind Power Systems, the precursor to Vortexis, with consideration of comparable technologies and engineering used in aerospace and flight. It's no coincidence that the our technology partner's facilities are in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The result is an ultra-efficient, robust, earth-friendly, micro and "nano" wind turbine with a unique blade force multiplier technology. The ground-breaking VAWT technology generates significantly more power in less wind when compared with conventional VAWTs.

The primary performance advantages of the VAWT include:

1) The pre-swirl turns the flow to the rotor rotating direction and makes the relative flow incidence to rotor more uniform. As the result, it increases the area within a rotation cycle that a rotor blade can generate power output.

2) The pre-swirl of the stator will increase the rotor turning with the rotor blade chord more aligned with radial direction (small absolute value of stagger angle), which will reduce the blade metal blockage.

3) The pre-swirl process reduces the guide vanes area and accelerates the flow before striking the rotor. Even though
the stator blade will reduce the rotor capture area for free-stream, the benefit of velocity increase due to pre-swirl will surpass the area reduction since the power output is proportional to velocity cube and lineally proportional to capture area.

4) The high aerodynamic efficiency allows the turbine to have compact size with high power output, light weight, and
easy deployment.

5) The stator blades work as a shield to reduce radar cross section of the turbine because the RADAR signature is mostly
generated by the rotating blades.