GUI de MATLAB para la evaluación del potencial eólico en sistemas operativos basados en GNU/Linux

Abstract

The evaluation of the wind resource constitutes one of the fundamental stages in the development of a project of a wind farm connected to the electric net. Nowadays there are several specialized software products that execute this task with great quality. However, they are only available for the proprietary operating systems. An alternative for the evaluation of the wind power in GNU/Linux platform built-in systems is presented in this investigation. For it the powerful mathematical tool MATLAB v8.1.0.604 (R2013a) was used on the Linux Mint 17 “Quiana” operating system. In order to process the information of the winds measurements a GUI was designed using the Toolbox GUIDE (Graphical User Interface Development Environment). Finally, using MATLAB Compiler™ v4.18.1 an autonomous application able to be executed in any computer that has a GNU/Linux distribution was obtained. The achieved results show that the wind power evaluation, using the implemented calculation methods, are consistent with the wind map of Cuba and other studies carried out in this region. Therefore, can be asserted that the obtained product constitutes a suitable alternative for the wind power evaluation.

Keywords

• GUIDE
• Linux
• MATLAB
• Weibull
• wind power