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Wind Resource Assessment and Micro-siting: Science and Engineering

ISBN: 978-1-118-90010-9

September 2015

320 pages

Description
Covers all the key areas of wind resource assessment technologies from an engineer’s perspective

  • Focuses on wind analysis for wind plant siting, design and analysis
  • Addresses all aspects from atmospheric boundary layer characteristics, to wind resource measurement systems, uncertainties in measurements, computations and analyses, to plant performance
  • Covers the basics of atmospheric science through to turbine siting, turbine responses, and to environmental impacts
  • Contents can be used for research purposes as well as a go-to reference guide, written from the perspective of a hands-on engineer
  • Topic is of ongoing major international interest for its economic and environmental benefits
About the Author
Matthew Huaiquan Zhang,
Independent Renewable Energy Consultant, China/ UK