Wind resource assessment and micro-siting: science and engineering

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.

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Acknowledgments; About the Author; List of Symbols; Chapter 1 Introduction; 1.1 Wind Resource Assessment as a Discipline; 1.2 Micro-siting Briefing; 1.3 Cascade of Wind Regime; 1.3.1 Global Scale Wind Regime; 1.3.2 Synoptic Scale Wind Regime; 1.3.3 Meso-scale Wind Regime; 1.3.4 Local Scale Wind Regime; 1.4 Uncertainty of Wind Resource; 1.5 Scope of the Book; References; Chapter 2 Concepts and Analytical Tools; 2.1 Surface Roughness and Wind Profile; 2.1.1 Roughness Length; 2.1.2 Vertical Wind Profile; 2.1.3 Internal Boundary Layer.

2.1.4 Roughness Change Model2.1.5 Displacement Height; 2.1.6 Wind Shear; 2.2 Speed-up Effect of Terrain; 2.2.1 Horizontal Speed-up Profile; 2.2.2 Vertical Speed-up on Hill Top; 2.2.3 Orographic Categorisation of Terrain; 2.2.4 Ruggedness Index; 2.3 Shelter Effect of Obstacles; 2.3.1 Reduced Wind Speed; 2.3.2 Increased Turbulence Intensity; 2.4 Summary; References; Chapter 3 Numerical Wind Flow Modelling; 3.1 Modelling Concept Review; 3.1.1 Wind Flow Concepts; 3.1.2 Governing Equations; 3.1.3 Meshing the Computational Domain; 3.2 Linearised Numerical Flow Models; 3.2.1 Jackson-Hunt Model.

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