Role of advanced CAE tools in the optimization of wind resource assessment of complex terrains

This paper highlights the importance of advanced computer aided engineering (CAE) tools in the cognitive communication process, involved in the wind resource assessment and wind farm design optimization. Wind field assessment around Narvik city has been used as a case study of complex terrain in this paper. CAE tools are used at different steps during the optimization process, either to perform numerical simulation, or to produce physical scaled models of selected complex terrain to be tested at experimental facilities including wind tunnels. The effective communication between humans and artificially cognitive systems allows achieving optimized solutions for real problems. The computer aided design (CAD) model is the digital representation of the actual topology of the area of interest. Different CAE tools help to link between the digital world of numerical simulations and the computer numerically controlled (CNC) machines. It is identified as a complex evolving type of communication; that involves intra-inter communication skills within the loop of optimization involving CAE tools.