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.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- 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},
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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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