Wind

Wind is a component containing routines to generate long-term series of wind speed values using parameters from existing wind speed records. Generating mean daily wind speed involves stochastic processes, followed by estimation of maximum and minimum wind speed for each day. Alternative stochastic approaches are available to random generation of hourly wind speed. Options to generate hourly data by means of wave equations are also allowed to describe cyclic diurnal variation of wind speed.

The component implements the test of pre-conditions and post-conditions for each of the models provided, allowing an input on screen, TXT or XML file; custom output drivers can also be developed. Moreover, data sets used to perform unit tests on each of the models made available is also provided as part of this documentation.

The component can be freely used and distributed by modellers and developers in their own applications, if the application contains either a dedicated menu item or a dedicated button calling the Info() method of the component, and links to the original help file. This method displays information about the component and a button which activates the help of the component (examples of how to do this are shown in the sample applications provided to illustrate the use of the component). The component design allows for extensions by the users that can add easily their own models. Sample clients are provided inclusive of source code to demonstrate how to add models (C# version), and to build a Win .NET application (C# version). A sample web service and a sample web application are available on line (http://www.sipeaa.it/tools) as further examples of possible use of the component.