Vertical-axis turbines, long kept in the shadow of horizontal-axis turbines, are starting to gain more importance in the renewable energy market nowadays. This new trend comes from recent advances in the efficiency, making them more competitive. This thesis takes part in the actual research by considering a flexible blade as a possible passive system to improve the efficiency of this technology. At first, a 2D study using a straight blade turbine with a flexible trailing edge is done in order to select the best characteristics for a 3D study which is carried out subsequently. A model employing computational fluid dynamic coupled to a finite element model is used and validated in this thesis. OpenFOAM software is used with an in-house library which allows fluid-solid couplings in 2D. The resolution of the 3D domain is conducted by using StarCCM+ software as well as a fluid-solid coupling integrated into the software. Also, the turbulence modeling is performed using the unsteady form of the RANS k-ω SST turbulence model. The result of the 2D study shows an increase in efficiency for the operating conditions below and above the optimal efficiency point compared with a turbine with rigid blade. It is also shown that the flexible blades decrease the efficiency of the turbine at the optimal efficiency point. However, the impact of 3D effects on the dynamic behaviour of flexible blades changes the observations made in 2D at the optimal efficiency point. Indeed, the threedimensional modeling of the problem makes it possible to highlight an overall increase in the efficiency of the turbine by considerably reducing the vortex drag of the blades by acting directly on the formation of the tip vortices.