Georges Jean Marie Darrieus (24 September 1888 – 15 July 1979) was a French

aeronautical engineer Aerospace engineering is the primary field of engineering concerned with the development of aircraft and spacecraft. It has two major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering. Avionics engineering is si ...

in the 20th century. He is perhaps most famous for his invention of the Darrieus rotor, a

wind turbine A wind turbine is a device that converts the kinetic energy of wind into electrical energy. Hundreds of thousands of large turbines, in installations known as wind farms, now generate over 650 gigawatts of power, with 60 GW added each year. ...

capable of operating from any direction and under adverse weather conditions, and the vertical-axis

giromill The Darrieus wind turbine is a type of vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) used to generate electricity from wind energy. The turbine consists of a number of curved aerofoil blades mounted on a rotating shaft or framework. The curvature of the bla ...

. The invention is described in the 1931 . =See also= * Darrieus–Landau instability

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academie-sciences.fr

US patent 1,835,018
French aerospace engineers Members of the French Academy of Sciences 20th-century French inventors Wind turbines 1888 births 1979 deaths Fluid dynamicists {{France-engineer-stub