Nowadays, optimal placement of wind turbines in a wind farm is one of the major concerns of the wind farm designers. This paper concentrates on the optimal placement of wind turbines in a wind farm. The optimal placement of wind turbines has been carried out to maximize the output energy and minimize the investment cost of cable, road and wind turbines. For this purpose, Firstly, it should be d...

Aims & Backgrounds: Considering the fact that a large part of our country is in arid and semi-arid regions and every year wind erosion and dust storms cause significant damages to the country's bio-economic resources, it is necessary to study this phenomenon. This study investigated the erosion rate of geomorphological facies of Gonabad city in relation to wind erosion. Methodology: The wind er...

For proper and efficient utilization of wind power, the prediction of wind speed is very important. Wind is one of the main sources of energy in the world, but the wind turbines have a lack of reliability, continuity and homogeneity in power production. On the other hand, sudden changes of wind speed, lead to risk for wind turbine units health. Therefore, the prediction of wind speed for turbin...

The goal of this study was to provide quality assurance for QuikSCAT wind speed and direction in Iranian adjacent seas including the Caspian Sea, the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. Synoptic station wind data and numerical atmospheric models in the study area were compared with QuikSCAT wind field. Time difference and spatial separation between the QuikSCAT and synoptic observations were lim...

Effective management of genetic resources in the domestic animals is based on characterization of genetic structure and diversity among populations. Strategies reducing complexity and dimensions of data are required to analyze the genetic relationships between populations based on dense genomic data. The objective of this study was to use the discriminant analysis of principal components (DAPC)...