An investigation of wind power potential required in installation of wind energy conversion systems

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy

Volumn 220, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-13

  Akpinar, E K ^a   Akpinar, S ^a  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Weibull and Rayleigh distributions; Wind energy; Wind turbines

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONVERSION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; WIND TURBINES;

RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTION; WIND ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEMS;

WIND POWER;

ENERGY CONVERSION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

EID: 33244479412     PISSN: 09576509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/095765005X69215     Document Type: Article

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