WAsP – the Wind Atlas Analysis and Application Program

WindFarmer/WAsP course programme

Venue: Madrid, Spain. The course is arranged jointly by Garrad Hassan and Partners and Risø National Laboratory.

Tuesday, 25 May 2004

08:00    Site visit
   [Transport from/to course venue in Madrid provided]
14:00    Lunch
15:30    WAsP course, Part I
   Installation of WAsP
   Introduction & theory
   The map editor
18:00    Close

Wednesday, 26 May 2004

09:00    WAsP course, Part II
   Terrain roughness and roughness change
   Shelter from buildings and natural obstacles
   Hills and flow modelling
   Complex terrain and other issues
   Wind measurements and analyses of wind data
14:00    Lunch
15:30    WAsP course, Part III
   WAsP analysis: Wind atlas generation
   WAsP application: Wind resource prediction
   On-line help and documentation
   WAsP work on site data
17:30    Close

Thursday, 27 May 2004

09:00    WindFarmer course, Part I
    Introduction/overview
    Getting started
    WindFarmer user interface
    Energy calculation
    Layout optimization
    WindFarmer and WAsP
14:00   Lunch
15:30   WindFarmer course, Part II
    Wake modelling and verification
    Power and thrust curve
    Turbulence and air density
    Energy settings
    Calculation of predicted wind farm output
17:30   Close

Friday, 28 May 2004

09:00    WindFarmer course, Part III
   Cumulative effects of wind farms
    Noise modelling
    Zones of visual influence
    Photomontage and animation
14:00   Lunch
15:30   WindFarmer course, Part IV
    Financial modelling
    Electrical modelling
17:15    Evaluation of course
17:30    Close

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