Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for sensing wind flow passing over complex terrain
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Application No.: US15926864Application Date: 2018-03-20
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Publication No.: US10795054B2Publication Date: 2020-10-06
- Inventor: Saleh Nabi , Piyush Grover , Mithu Debnath
- Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MA Cambridge
- Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Cambridge
- Agent Gennadiy Vinokur; James McAleenan; Hironori Tsukamoto
- Main IPC: G01W1/00
- IPC: G01W1/00 ; G01V3/38 ; G01S17/95 ; G01P5/26 ; G01S7/48 ; G01P5/00 ; G01S17/58

Abstract:
A wind flow sensing system determines a first approximation of the velocity field at each of the altitudes by simulating computational fluid dynamics (CFD) of the wind flow with operating parameters reducing a cost function of a weighted combination of errors, determines a horizontal derivative of vertical velocity at each of the altitudes from the first approximation of the velocity fields, and determines a second approximation of the velocity fields using geometric relationships between a velocity field for each of the altitudes, projections of the measurements of radial velocities on the three-dimensional axes, and the horizontal derivative of vertical velocity for the corresponding velocity field. In the cost function of the CFD, each error corresponds to one of the altitudes and includes a difference between measured velocities at the line-of-site points at the corresponding altitude and simulated velocities at the line-of-site points simulated by the CFD for the corresponding altitude. At least some errors in the weighted combination have different weights.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190293836A1 System and method for sensing wind flow passing over complex terrain Public/Granted day:2019-09-26
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