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

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.

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Research Org.:
National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Wind Power Program
OSTI Identifier:
1259798
Report Number(s):
NREL/CP-5000-58539
Journal ID: ISSN 2271--2097
DOE Contract Number:  
AC36-08GO28308
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Journal Volume: 2; Conference: 1st Symposium on OpenFOAM in Wind Energy, 20-21 March 2013, Oldenburg, Germany
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
17 WIND ENERGY; atmospheric boundary layer; stable stratification; complex terrain; complex flow; large-eddy simulations; SOWFA

Citation Formats

Churchfield, M. J., Sang, L., and Moriarty, P. J. Adding Complex Terrain and Stable Atmospheric Condition Capability to the OpenFOAM-based Flow Solver of the Simulator for On/Offshore Wind Farm Applications (SOWFA): Preprint. United States: N. p., 2013. Web. doi:10.1051/itmconf/20140202001.
Churchfield, M. J., Sang, L., & Moriarty, P. J. Adding Complex Terrain and Stable Atmospheric Condition Capability to the OpenFOAM-based Flow Solver of the Simulator for On/Offshore Wind Farm Applications (SOWFA): Preprint. United States. https://doi.org/10.1051/itmconf/20140202001
Churchfield, M. J., Sang, L., and Moriarty, P. J. 2013. "Adding Complex Terrain and Stable Atmospheric Condition Capability to the OpenFOAM-based Flow Solver of the Simulator for On/Offshore Wind Farm Applications (SOWFA): Preprint". United States. https://doi.org/10.1051/itmconf/20140202001. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1259798.
@article{osti_1259798,
title = {Adding Complex Terrain and Stable Atmospheric Condition Capability to the OpenFOAM-based Flow Solver of the Simulator for On/Offshore Wind Farm Applications (SOWFA): Preprint},
author = {Churchfield, M. J. and Sang, L. and Moriarty, P. J.},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1051/itmconf/20140202001},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1259798}, journal = {},
issn = {2271--2097},
number = ,
volume = 2,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2013},
month = {Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2013}
}

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