Complex terrain

Following the growth of wind sector and the scarcity of available land, the market share of onshore wind energy installation on complex terrain is expected to increase. Wind resource assessment is a crucial process for the successful development of a …

1 Introduction A major challenge in numerical siting studies over complex terrain is getting the atmospheric boundary layer right [1]. This boundary layer can be con- structed in two ways: setting a logarithmic wind profile at the inlet boundary, or …