Precision wind measurements for wind energy
Event details
| Date | 06.09.2013 |
| Hour | 14:00 › 15:00 |
| Speaker | Professor Stuart Bradley, Physics Department, University of Auckland, New Zealand |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
There is increasing focus on optimising wind energy installations. In response to this, the past 10 years have seen an enormous development of remote sensing capabilities, particularly with wind lidar, so that instrumented masts are being replaced with small mobile ground-based lidar (optical) and sodar (acoustic) sensors. There are still challenges for both lidar and sodar, particularly in inhomogeneous wind fields such as found in complex terrain. This seminar will describe work done by the Auckland group in collaboration with colleagues in the US and Europe, particularly with sodar, to improve wind estimation. Improvements come from understanding the physical basis for instrumental errors, as well as from new designs. Two new designs, the ‘bistatic’ sodar and the ‘urban’ sodar will be discussed.
Practical information
- Informed public
- Free
Organizer
- Professor Fernando Porté Agel
Contact
- Professor Fernando Porté Agel