Meteodyn WT, commonly known as Meteodyn is a wind energy software program that uses

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(CFD) to conduct

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. Developed and marketed by Meteodyn, Meteodyn WT was first released in September 2009. The software quantifies the wind resource in a desired terrain in order to assess the feasibility of a proposed

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. The software's objective is to design the most profitable

. This is achieved by taking into account the measured wind data at a

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and the terrain conditions. Both of these are essential to be able to obtain the wind conditions and therefore the wind resources of the desired terrain. Meteodyn WT has been validated with actual wind measurements by independent studies. Meteodyn WT is used by

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manufacturers, wind farm developers,

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s and wind farm operators.

Graphical user interface

The current version of Meteodyn WT displays all projects in one world map; this map already includes terrain and roughness data.

Features

Meteodyn WT features a geographical data management tool, a meteorological data processing tool, a LIDAR correction tool, a

creation tool, a wind turbines micro-siting tool, a wind atlas tool and an auto-convergence tool. It also includes the following functions: wind resource mapping,

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effect computation, annual energy production (AEP) with / without wake effect, directional

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at each turbine, wind and

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matrices at each turbine, IEC compliance, automatic report generation, losses and uncertainties.

Compatibility with other software

The current version of Meteodyn WT exports to the following wind energy software formats: .wrg, .rsf, .wrb, .fmv and .flowres.{{Cite news, url=https://meteodyn.com/en/logiciels/meteodyn-wt-rg-modelling-wind-resource-grid/#.Wru77y5ubX4, title=meteodyn WT RG - Wind resource grid, work=Meteodyn, access-date=2018-03-28, language=en-US, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180705151955/https://meteodyn.com/en/logiciels/meteodyn-wt-rg-modelling-wind-resource-grid/#.Wru77y5ubX4, archive-date=2018-07-05, url-status=dead Google earth an
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export formats are also available.

Solution method

Meteodyn WT uses

(CFD) which directly takes into consideration the geometry of the terrain in question. The software solves the Navier-Stokes equations numerically by using the K-L

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. This technique to solve the Navier-Stokes equations takes into account the

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of the

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Language

Meteodyn WT is available in English,

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and

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Ports

Microsoft Windows

Meteodyn WT is a

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package created for Microsoft Windows and usually, any new Meteodyn WT version supports the current Microsoft Windows version and some older ones. Meteodyn WT 5.3.2 supports

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up to

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. Meteodyn WT 6 supports

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