Refined Numerical Simulation in Wind Resource Assessment and Wind Power Forecasting

Abstract

An approach based on off-line, one-way nesting between a meteorological model, WRF, and a commercial CFD model, FLUENT, is applied to perform finescale wind simulations over realistic complex terrain. The refined WRF/FLUENT system was applied to assess the wind resource in the northern Poyang Lake region and forecast the wind power of the Yangmeishan wind farm in Yunnan. The results showed that the approach is viable for the assessment and forecasting of wind energy.