Simulation of wind farm operations and maintenance

Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo

Volumn 8, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Pérez, Eduardo ^a   Ntaimo, Lewis ^b   Ding, Yu ^b  

^a Texas State University   (United States)

^b Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; MAINTENANCE; WIND POWER;

DISCRETE EVENTS; EVENT BASED SIMULATION; MODULE DEGRADATION; OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE; SCALED-UP; SIMULATION FRAMEWORK; STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; SUBMODULES; WIND FARM; WIND FARM OPERATIONS;

TURBINES;

EID: 84890186517     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/GT2013-94300     Document Type: Conference Paper

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