A comparison of wind flow models for wind resource assessment in wind energy applications

Energies

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 4288-4322

  Gasset, Nicolas ^a   Landry, Mathieu ^b   Gagnon, Yves ^b  

^a ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

Author keywords

MC2; Mesoscale; Microscale; MsMicro; WAsP; Wind flow models; Wind resource assessment

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; FLOW CONTROL; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; WIND POWER;

MESOSCALE; MICROSCALE; MSMICRO; WASP; WIND RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; WIND-FLOW MODEL;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 84868603206     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en5114288     Document Type: Article

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