Performance evaluation of cup-anemometers and wind speed characteristics analysis

Renewable Energy

Volumn 86, Issue , 2016, Pages 733-744

  Baseer, M A ^a,b   Meyer, J P ^a   Rehman, S ^c   Mahbub, Alam Md ^d   Al Hadhrami, L M ^c   Lashin, A ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b JUBAIL INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE   (Saudi Arabia)

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

^d HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^e KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^f BENHA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Scatter factor; Tower distortion factor; Turbulence intensity; Wind anemometer; Wind power density; Wind speed

Indexed keywords

ANEMOMETERS; STATISTICS; WIND EFFECTS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

DISTORTION FACTOR; SCATTER FACTOR; TURBULENCE INTENSITY; WIND POWER DENSITY; WIND SPEED;

WIND;

ANEMOMETER; HEIGHT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SCATTERING; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84941670740     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: 18790682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2015.08.062     Document Type: Article

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