Wind energy in the Gulf of Tunis, Tunisia

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1303-1311

  Dahmouni, A W ^a   Salah, M Ben ^a   Askri, F ^b   Kerkeni, C ^a   Nasrallah, S Ben ^b  

^a Centre de Recherches et des Technologies de l'Energie   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Mean wind speed; Turbulence intensity; Weibull distribution; Wind power potential; Wind rose; Wind turbine

Indexed keywords

ABOVE GROUND LEVEL; ANNUAL PRODUCTION; ENERCON; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; MEAN WIND SPEED; POWER LAW EXPONENT; TIME STEP; TUNISIA; TURBULENCE INTENSITY; WIND DIRECTIONS; WIND ENERGY; WIND ENERGY POTENTIAL; WIND PARK; WIND RESOURCES; WIND SPEED;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; SPEED; TURBULENCE; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; WIND EFFECTS; WIND TURBINES;

WIND POWER;

EID: 76049091376     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2009.12.012     Document Type: Review

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