Open AccessMethod to describe the distribution of wind velocity and its application in wind resource evaluation
Author(s) -
Zhou Hai,
Hu Siyu,
Wu Ji,
Qin Fang,
Li Dengxuan,
Wei Haikun
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
energy science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.638
H-Index - 29
ISSN - 2050-0505
DOI - 10.1002/ese3.1302
Subject(s) - wind power , wind speed , meteorology , environmental science , distribution (mathematics) , wind profile power law , field (mathematics) , resource (disambiguation) , process (computing) , offshore wind power , mathematics , computer science , physics , mathematical analysis , engineering , computer network , pure mathematics , electrical engineering , operating system
A convenient and effective method based on vector analysis was proposed in this paper to quantitatively describe the pattern of the wind speed distribution curve. This method can accurately describe the steepness of the single‐peak curve by using two parameters of concentration degree (CD) and concentration period (CP). Through the analysis of wind speed data in China over the past 40 years, this paper found that regional wind resources with larger CD were poorer, while regional wind resources with larger CP were richer. In addition, there were obvious cubic relationships between the CP and the average wind power density. These two parameters could reflect the richness of wind energy and realize the comparisons of wind resources across time and scales. In comparison with conventional approaches, this method is simpler and avoids fitting process, which has broad promotion prospects in the field of power grids.