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MANE 4555 - Wind Energy Engineering

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.

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ENGR 1600 , (ENGR 2350  or MANE 4500 ), ENGR 2530 , ENGR 2600 , MANE 2720  

When Offered: Fall term annually.



Credit Hours: 3


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