A5078313371- Wind Energy Research and Development
- Wind and Air Flow Studies
- Solar Radiation and Photovoltaics
- Aerodynamics and Fluid Dynamics Research
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- Energy Load and Power Forecasting
- Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis
- Climate variability and models
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Hydrological Forecasting Using AI
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Integrated Energy Systems Optimization
University of Mauritius
2015-2020
The Smart City Scheme, as part of the Mauritius initiative, adopted by Government in 2014, heavily incentivised emergence new smart cities greenfields. resulting migration business and residents from existing to affected liveability standard encouraged property speculation. This shift reduced home pricing affordability further grasp young professionals. With Mauritian Landlord Tenant Act 1999 discouraging investment city centres, developers were additionally invest housing projects these...
The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) modelling system is used to generate high resolution wind speed maps. In order optimise the WRF model, a sensitivity test performed determine best combinations of physics be for simulating climate topology over Island Mauritius using WRF. More specifically, this paper gives details tests analyses that have been conducted on Mauritius. model tested clear days as well extreme weather conditions such cyclone anticyclone. results are presented. options...
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has become a very useful tool to study the wind flow patterns over complex terrains. The present work evaluates performance of some well-known CFD software for this endeavour. considered are OpenFOAM and WindSim, each solving numerically Reynolds Average Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations in turbulent regime using standard k-ε model. Different terrain complexity ranging from smooth more ones considered: Askervein Bolund hills. Simulated results were verified...
Interests in wind energy have gained impetus many developed and developing countries worldwide during the last three decades. This is due to awareness of population about depletion fossil fuels as well Government campaigns initiatives encourage use renewable sources energy. work focuses on potential at two selected locations (Plaisance Vacoas) Mauritius. The emphasis assess whether small-wind turbines a these regions for generation power domestic applications. Such can range size from 400 W...
Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) has been well studied for flood prediction. However, there is not enough empirical evidence to generalize ANN applicability small countries with microclimates prevailing in a geographical space. In this paper, we focus on the climatic conditions of Mauritius which seek investigate accuracy using predict flooding locally collected data from 11 meteorological stations spread across country. The model prediction presented work trained 20,000 climate records,...
A study was carried out to analyse the potential of wind energy in generation electricity for a smart city which is located South-East Coastal Zone Mauritius. flat land area 10 square km situated about 3.5 from chosen placement farm. The viability location assessed by analysing ten years (Jan 2005 Dec 2014) mean hourly speed measured at height m above ground level (m.a.g.l). data filtered according AWS (1997) guidelines and computed 60 m.a.g.l using power law formula. At this height, average...
In this article, results obtained from two computational fluid dynamics solvers, WindSim and OpenFOAM, have been compared for the wind flow around University of Mauritius’ campus different directions, a reference incident speed at diverse height above ground level. A grid resolution study is performed both software mean differences solvers with multiple turbulence models (standard k-ε, k-ε Yap correction, renormalization group k-ε) are analyzed onsite measured data. The article concludes...
The decoupling of energy prices from fossil fuel is slowly making its way as investment poured into renewable sources. Small Island Developing States are gaining in both stability and cost this momentum but face threat the same unsustainable centralization practices. A decentralized framework proposed for aimed at achieving grid attracting independent financing mechanisms. This applied a Wind perspective to ensure replicability on all types terrains, model analysed through three case...