Wind power distributions: A review of their applications

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1490-1495

  Villanueva, D ^a   Feijoo A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Mean density power; Rayleigh distributions; Weibull distributions; Wind power; Wind speed

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM POWER; MEAN DENSITY; MEAN POWER; MEAN WIND SPEED; RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTIONS; WIND DISTRIBUTION; WIND POWER DISTRIBUTION; WIND SPEED;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; LOCATION; SPEED; WIND EFFECTS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 77949490190     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2010.01.005     Document Type: Review

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