Final Report: Round Robin Flow Simulation

Wind energy has successfully developed world wide during the last years. Along with this good development, there have been continuous improvements of the tools used for the simulation of thewind flow conditions. Future installations are foreseen to concentrate over off-shore areas and to develop more and more over internal complex terrain sites. With the exploitation of wind energy over internal areas, the complexity of the surface and flow conditions makes the requirements for a proper wind resource assessment and for a correct definition of the financing risks even higher. Despite a general improvement of several aspects of resource assessment methods (such as the analysis of the anemometers effects, the long term correlation techniques etc. ), the methods for extrapolation of wind conditions from a measurement mast to a wind turbine site has remained more or less unchanged since the early nineties: The European Wind Atlas is a „de facto“ standard method for most of the energy yield calculations.

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