How to simulate weather-based wind farm servicing?

Hi,

I would like to simulate the weather-based servicing of an offshore wind park over 20 years. Dependent on hourly weather data service can or can not be performed. I would like to simulate a wind farm with 80 turbines, wich shall be serviced every 20 days. Due to bad weather service may not be performed at day 20, but then at day 21.

My plan was to use SimEvents. Do you have an idea of how to start?

Best

[John D'Errico]

This is a (too) broad question. You eat a programming elephant one byte at a time. So start writing.

Solve a smaller problem to start with. Figure out how to solve a tiny one, then think about how you would extend that solution. So model a single wind turbine to start. Good skills in programming/modeling would help you to think in advance, planning on adding features, like how to handle bad weather in the model.

[Yuebin Zhou]

Many examples come with Simulink. You may also refer to the examples below to get some ideas on how to start.

http://www.mathworks.com/help/physmod/sps/examples/wind-farm-ig.html?searchHighlight=wind%20farm

http://www.mathworks.com/help/physmod/sps/powersys/ug/wind-farm-using-doubly-fed-induction-generators.html?searchHighlight=wind%20farm

[Endric Schenk]

As I´m new in SimEvents I followed Johns advise and started writing. See my first work for a single turbine below:

my from workspace files look like this:

1. Offshore works are randomly generated 2. Weather generation on hourly basis (wave height and wind speed) 3. Available vessels, vessel departing at harbor 4. Time needed for travel and works offshore 5. vessel arriving at harbor

My "bottleneck" actually is the implemenatation of weather series. What I want is: Simulation time is 14 years (131496 hours) equal to the available weather data. Every time a repair work or maintenanace work is generated, it needs to be checked, if wave height and wind speed are in a certain limitation (wave height <2 & wind speed <30). Example: Repair work is generated at time 1223, but wave height is 2,1 repair work needs to be put in a queues until wave height is < 2. Furthermore the wave height and wind speed needs to be in the limitation for at least 4 hours.

Support would be great!