Currently carrying out research under the EAWE's WAUDIT program which aims to audit, standardise and improve the methods used in industry to assess the wind energy resource of a proposed site. His particular area of research is CFD modelling of wind flows in complex terrain with a focus on forest flows.
For more information see:
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/cdesmond
Expertise
Energy Conservation and Sustainability
Energy use in the Built Environment
Renewable Energy Systems
Systems Engineering
Wind power
Keywords
Wind energy
CFD
Neural Networks
Complex terrain
WAsP
Research is currently focused on the effect of atmospheric stability and the possiblity of using artificial neural networks to bring the power of CFD to bear on linear tools such as WAsP.