Adding Complex Terrain and Stable Atmospheric Condition Capability to the OpenFOAM-based Flow Solver of the Simulator for On/Offshore Wind Farm Applications (SOWFA) [electronic resource] : Preprint

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 629.13 Aeronautics
• Thông tin xuất bản: Golden, Colo. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.) ; Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2013
• Mô tả vật lý: Size: 1.3 MB : , digital, PDF file.
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 258886
• Chủ đề: 1. 17 wind energy; 2. Atmospheric boundary layer; 3. Complex flow; 4. Complex terrain; 5. Stable stratification

Tóm tắt

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.