Methods and tools to evaluate the availability of renewable energy sources

A Angelis-Dimakis, M Biberacher, J Dominguez… - … and sustainable energy …, 2011 - Elsevier
The recent statements of both the European Union and the US Presidency pushed in the
direction of using renewable forms of energy, in order to act against climate changes …

Methods and tools for community energy planning: A review

Z Huang, H Yu, Z Peng, M Zhao - Renewable and sustainable energy …, 2015 - Elsevier
High consumption of fossil fuels in urban area leads to environmental pollution and energy
shortages, which threaten to reverse human progress. Community energy system planning …

[HTML][HTML] The Perdigão: peering into microscale details of mountain winds

HJS Fernando, J Mann, J Palma… - Bulletin of the …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
Aitken, ML, B. Kosović, JD Mirocha, and JK Lundquist, 2014: Large eddy simulation of wind
turbine wake dynamics in the stable boundary layer using the Weather Research and …

Climate change mitigation potential of wind energy

RJ Barthelmie, SC Pryor - Climate, 2021 - mdpi.com
Global wind resources greatly exceed current electricity demand and the levelized cost of
energy from wind turbines has shown precipitous declines. Accordingly, the installed …

Complex terrain experiments in the new european wind atlas

J Mann, N Angelou, J Arnqvist… - … of the Royal …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The New European Wind Atlas project will create a freely accessible wind atlas covering
Europe and Turkey, develop the model chain to create the atlas and perform a series of …

CFD simulation of wind flow over natural complex terrain: Case study with validation by field measurements for Ria de Ferrol, Galicia, Spain

B Blocken, A van der Hout, J Dekker… - Journal of Wind …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Accurate and reliable Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations of wind
flow over natural complex terrain are important for a wide range of applications including …

Wind resource assessment at mountainous wind farm: Fusion of RANS and vertical multi-point on-site measured wind field data

X Cheng, B Yan, X Zhou, Q Yang, G Huang, Y Su… - Applied Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract RANS (Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes) has become one of the mainstream
methods to determine the wind field in the wind resource assessment of the complex terrain …

The Bolund experiment, part I: flow over a steep, three-dimensional hill

J Berg, J Mann, A Bechmann, MS Courtney… - Boundary-layer …, 2011 - Springer
We present an analysis of data from a measurement campaign performed at the Bolund
peninsula in Denmark in the winter of 2007–2008. Bolund is a small isolated hill exhibiting a …

Modeling wake effects in large wind farms in complex terrain: the problem, the methods and the issues

ES Politis, J Prospathopoulos, D Cabezon… - Wind …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Computational fluid dynamic (CFD) methods are used in this paper to predict the power
production from entire wind farms in complex terrain and to shed some light into the wake …

A review of measure-correlate-predict (MCP) methods used to estimate long-term wind characteristics at a target site

JA Carta, S Velázquez, P Cabrera - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract So-called Measure-Correlate-Predict (MCP) methods have been extensively
proposed in renewable energy related literature to estimate the wind resources that …