Wind profile parameter estimation using MathCAD.

(...) This study evaluated the applicability of a commercial mathematics software package, MathCAD, to estimate the three parameters- friction velocity (U * ), zero-plane displacement height (d), and the roughness length, Zo-of the adiabatic log-law wind profile. The solutions were evaluated and compared to previous published solutions for several wind profiles using traditional methods. MathCAD was found to solve the wind profiles rapidly without convergence difficulty on the tested profiles. In all the comparisons , MathCAD produced almost exact duplications of previously published results (...)