Wind Turbines - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
The Savonius wind turbine is a simple vertical axis wind machine invented by Sigurd J. Savonius in 1922. In its original design, it was made with two half-cylindrical blades arranged in an 'S' shape. The convex side of one half-cylinder and the concave side of the other face the wind at the same time as shown in Figure 26.