WindSim maximizes wind farm energy production while minimizing loads on the wind turbines uses the site's digital terrain model together with wind measurements to calculate results precisely calculates the wind's characteristics (shear, vear, turbulence) on the wind turbines' locations WindSim is a CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) program that calculates the wind map of a given area by solving Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) non-linear equations. This solving method gives far more accurate results than linear methods, especially in site with complex terrain and climate.

WindSim's results are iterative: starting with hypothetical or mesoscale boundary conditions, the program iterates calculations until they converge.

The new, WindSim version 5.0 features:

• New Park Optimizer utility that calculates the optimal wind farm layout
• Remote sensing correction utility for data from LIDAR and SODAR
• Improved interractive 3D-interface
• Possibility to digitize and merge roughness data with the digital terrain model using the new Terrain Editor utility
• Noise calculation
• Wind map calculation using thermal stratification
• Multi-CPU utilization for faster calculations