Austin, Texas

Venue: Hyatt Regency Hotel, Austin, Texas, USA. Held in connection with Windpower 2003.

Course Programme 15-17 May 2003

Thursday 15 May

10:00 Welcome
10:10 Registration & coffee, Test of PC-installations and software
11:00 Introduction & theory
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Terrain description and the map editor
14:30 Terrain roughness and roughness change
16:00 Shelter from buildings and natural obstacles
17:00 Close
18:00 Course dinner

Friday 16 May

09:00 Welcome to day 2
09:10 Hills and flow modeling 
10:00 Complex terrain and other issues 
11:00 Wind measurements and analyses of wind data
12:00 Lunch 
13:00 WAsP analysis: Wind atlas generation
14:00 WAsP application: Wind resource prediction
15:00 Wind power calculations
16:00 User's Guide and on-line Help system
16:30 Close

Saturday 17 May

09:00 Welcome to day 3
09:10 Case study - the participants carry out a complete WAsP analysis and application
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Case study continued 
13:30 Presentation and discussion of case study
14:30 Working with WAsP
15:30 Q & A session
16:00 Evaluation of course
16:30 Close

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