WAsP Engineering Course Programme

Day 1

10:00    Registration and software installation
10:40    Welcome – presentation of program and goals
11:00    Introduction to WAsP Engineering
11:30    Basic concepts and terms
12:30    Lunch
13:30    Guided tour to WAsP Engineering and WAsP Climate Analyst
14:15    Flow over hills
14:45    Break
15:00    Exercise 1 – flow over an escarpment
16:00    LINCOM – the flow model
17:30    Close 

18:30    Course dinner

Day 2

09:00    Welcome to day 2
09:10    Exercise 2 – flow over Askervein Hill
10:30    General introduction to extreme winds
11:15    Break
11:30    Extreme-wind estimation by WAsP Engineering
12:30    Lunch
13:30    WAsP Climate Analyst
14:15    Exercise 3 – extreme-wind climate estimation
15:45    Break
16:00    Basic turbulence theory
16:15    Turbulence in WAsP Engineering
16:30    Scripting in WAsP Engineering
17:00    Close 

Day 3

08:30    Welcome to day 3
08:40    Turbulence case studies
09:15    Exercise 4 – turbulence and extreme winds
10:30    Limitations of WAsP Engineering
10:45    Break
11:00    WAsP Engineering and IEC61400-1 site assessment
11:45    Windfarm Assessment Tool 
12:30    Lunch
13:30    Exercise 5 – site assessment
15:30    Evaluation of the course
15:45    Close