Abstract
This paper describes changes made to NREL's OpenFOAM-based wind plant aerodynamics solver such that it can compute the stably stratified atmospheric boundary layer and flow over terrain. Background about the flow solver, the Simulator for Off/Onshore Wind Farm Applications (SOWFA) is given, followed by details of the stable stratification/complex terrain modifications to SOWFA, along with somepreliminary results calculations of a stable atmospheric boundary layer and flow over a simply set of hills.
| Original language | American English |
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| Number of pages | 18 |
| State | Published - 2013 |
| Event | 1st Symposium on OpenFOAM in Wind Energy - Oldenburg, Germany Duration: 20 Mar 2013 → 21 Mar 2013 |
Conference
| Conference | 1st Symposium on OpenFOAM in Wind Energy |
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| City | Oldenburg, Germany |
| Period | 20/03/13 → 21/03/13 |
NREL Publication Number
- NREL/CP-5000-58539
Keywords
- atmospheric boundary layer
- complex flow
- complex terrain
- large-eddy simulations
- SOWFA
- stable stratification