Assessment and analysis of wind power resource using weibull parameters

Energy Exploration and Exploitation

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 105-122

  Bassyouni, M ^a,b   Gutub, Saud ^a   Javaid, Umair ^a   Awais, Muhammad ^a   Rehman, Shafiqur ^c   Abdel Hamid, S ^b   Abdel Aziz, M ^a,d   Abouel Kasem, A ^a,e   Shafeek, Hani ^a,f  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b HIGHER TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Egypt)

^c KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^d Alexandria University The Faculty Of Engineering   (Egypt)

^e Assiut University   (Egypt)

^f SUEZ CANAL UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Energy; Weibull parameters; Wind direction; Wind power potential

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; WIND;

ENERGY; POWER POTENTIAL; PROBABILITY DENSITY DISTRIBUTION; WEIBULL PARAMETERS; WIND APPLICATIONS; WIND CHARACTERISTICS; WIND DIRECTIONS; WIND POWER RESOURCES;

WIND POWER;

EID: 84925203197     PISSN: 01445987     EISSN: 20484054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/0144-5987.33.1.105     Document Type: Article

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