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Renewable Energy Technical Papers
CPP Wind’s engineers and scientists have authored many technical papers on renewable energy. Here are just a few.
Wind on Solar Arrays
Wind Tunnel Testing of Torsional Instability in Single-Axis Solar Trackers (Enshaei, Chowdhury, Sauder, Banks, 2023)
Effect of Solar Panel Support Structure on the Wind Loading of Horizontal Single-axis Trackers (Chowdhury, Sauder, Banks, 2022)
Torsional Instability of Single-Axis Solar Tracking Systems (Rohr, Bourke & Banks, 2015)
A hybrid method of generating realistic full-scale time series of wind loads from large-scale wind tunnel studies Application to solar arrays (Guha, Fewless & Banks, 2015)
Vortex induced dynamic loads on fixed tilt ground mount photovoltaic arrays (Guha, Fewless & Banks, 2015)
Wind Loads on Utility-Scale Solar PV Power Plants (Banks & Cain, 2015)
Effects of vortex shedding in arrays of long inclined flat plates (Strobel & Banks, 2014)
The role of corner vortices indicating peak wind loads on tilted flat solar panels mounted on large flat roofs (Banks, 2013)
Wind Load Analysis for Commercial Roof-Mounted Arrays (O’Brien & Banks, 2012)
How to Calculate Wind Loads on Roof Mounted Solar Panels in the US (Banks, 2011)
Wind Energy
Integrating Wind Energy into the Design of Tall Buildings – A Case Study… (Cochran & Damiani, 2008)
Design Loads for Wind Power Applications (Peterka, Orwig, Damiani & Cochran, 2008)
Complex Terrain: A Valid Wind Option (Damiani, Cochran, Orwig & Peterka, 2008)