1. Wind Energy, Its Origin and Power 2. Properties of Wind 3. Basics of Aerodynamics 4. Wind Farm Design Fundamentals 5. Conventional Models for Wake Generation behind a Wind Turbine 6. Analytical Model based on Similarity Solution 7. Numerical Simulation of Wind Farms using OpenFOAM 8. Optimization for Wind Farm Layout Design
Appendix A. Ancient Persian Wind Turbines B. Sample Wind Turbines C. Sample Wind Farms D. Blade Element Method E. Optimization Methods F. Implementing Blade Element Method in C++ G. Implementing Optimization Methods in C++
Farschad Torabi is an assistant professor at K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Iran. His research interests include renewable energies, batteries and electrochemical systems. His background is in mechanical engineering and his research agenda addresses numerical simulation, using a combination of computational fluid mechanics and analytical methods.