PAPER
Wind Resource Assessment in Forested Terrain
How Meteodyn achieved 1.1% mean speed error in complex forested terrain, using only standard industrial inputs.
A peer-reviewed methodology by Meteodyn & EDF Power Solutions, published in Energies (MDPI)
A Complete CFD Methodology Based on Iterative Model Adjustment to Improve Wind Simulation Accuracy in Highly Dense Forest Area
What you will find in this paper
- A complete CFD calibration framework for forested terrain, implemented in Meteodyn WT
- The full IMA (Iterative Model Adjustment) methodology: equations, convergence criteria, and workflow
- Validation results across six cross-prediction cases covering contrasted terrain and forest conditions
- A 1.1% global mean absolute speed error, with only standard industrial inputs
