Short-term forecasting of a wind farm output using CFD

European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition 2008

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 675-684

  Veiga Rodrigues, C ^a,b   Silva Santos, C M ^a,b   Palma, J M L M ^a,b   Castro, F A ^a,c   Miranda, P M A ^d   Rodrigues, A H ^a,b  

^a CEsA Research Centre for Wind Energy and Atmospheric Flows   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ENGENHARIA DO PORTO   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CFD SIMULATIONS; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR; MESOSCALE SIMULATION; MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN; PORTUGAL; POWER OUT PUT; POWER PREDICTIONS; SHORT-TERM FORECASTING; WEATHER FORECASTS; WIND FARM; WIND VELOCITIES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; EXHIBITIONS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

WIND POWER;

EID: 84870043126     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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