# Wind Energy Engineering

## MANE-4780

Topics Covered: Climatology, Solar vs. Wind Energy, Earth's rotational and Coriolis effects, Wind Speed Statistics: Histograms, Weibull, Available Energy, Aerodynamics, Wake effects, Thrust and Power with objects in Wind flow, Betz Limit, Wind Shear and Ground Effects; Blade aero/structural design, and manufacture; OEM Wind Turbine Designs/Architectures, and capturing Wind Energy via Direct Drive-Generators/Gearbox-driven; Pitch/Yaw Controls, Tower designs. The back-end interface with the Grid, Wind Farm development and Supervisory Controls; Cost Of Energy: Wind vs. Fossil Fuel technologies.

3 credits
Prereqs:
ENGR-1600 Materials Science For Engineer
and
ENGR-2530 Strength Of Materials
and
ENGR-2600 Modeling & Analysis Uncertaint
and
MANE-2720 Fluid Mechanics
and
one of:
ENGR-2350 Embedded Control MANE-4500 Modeling And Contrl Of Dyn Sys

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Wind Energy Engineering (3c)

- Etana Alemayehe Ferede
- Fred Thomas Willett

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