31/01/23 15:54:46

@wind-energy

Characteristics of the wind

  • Turbulence caused by dissipation of wind’s ke into te via creation and destruction of smaller eddies.
  • TI = \sigma/U where U is the mean wind speed.
  • Wind speed variation is considered normal.
  • Average TI is about 10-20%.
  • PDF gives us the pprobability of the wind speed taking on certain values.
  • PDF is step up from turbulence intensity. P of u normally distbuted is pretty crude.
  • If you work out average velocity you can work out average power.
  • k = 2 implies a Releigh? distribution.
  • Uses a gamma function?
  • Lot of whiteboard work on Weibull distribution. Good for back of envelope calculation for propspecting a site.
  • covariance scale up variablity of one variable with that of another.