Wind, Volume 5, Issue 2

Knowledge of how wind turbines interact with vertebrate animals is growing rapidly; however, less is known about plants and insects. Turbines produce infrasound (≤20 Hz), and these vibrations decrease with distance from turbines. We measured seed...

Wind energy is a renewable energy resource that can be harnessed to generate electrical energy. In this paper, a novel Artificial Neural Network (ANN) approach using wavelet analysis for wind energy forecasting is proposed and tested with wind data f...

The estimation of the aerodynamic characteristics of a rough surface (zero displacement plane $d_0$ and aerodynamic roughness length $z_0$) is important in the simulation of atmospheric boundary layer wind in a wind tunnel, since they are pa...

There have been numerous reported accidents of lightning strikes damaging wind turbine blades, which poses a serious problem. In certain accidents, the blades that were struck by lightning continued to rotate, resulting in breakage due to centrifugal...

Ground roughness is investigated for its influence on the propagation of wind turbine noise by using a proposed multiple scattering theory to predict the reflection of sound waves from a deterministic distribution of hemispheres. By using a distribut...

This study examines output energy and efficiency of a torsional flutter harvester in gusty winds. The proposed apparatus exploits the torsional flutter of a rigid flapping foil, able to rotate about a pivot axis located in the proximity of the windwa...

Accurate near-surface wind speed and direction measurements are crucial for validating atmospheric models, especially for the purpose of adequately assessing the interactions between the surface and wind, which in turn results in characteristic verti...