Fuzzy logic based multi-criteria wind turbine selection strategy - A case study of Qassim, Saudi Arabia

Energies

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2016, Pages

  Rehman, Shafiqur ^a   Khan, Salman A ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Decision making; Fuzzy arithmetic mean operator; Fuzzy logic; Wind energy; Wind turbine

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CIRCUITS; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY INFERENCE; FUZZY SETS; WIND; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

CUT-IN WIND SPEED; DECISION CRITERIONS; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; DECISION PROCESS; FUZZY ARITHMETIC MEAN; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; RATED WIND SPEED; SELECTION CRITERIA;

FUZZY LOGIC;

EID: 84994310691     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en9110872     Document Type: Article

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