Adding Complex Terrain and Stable Atmospheric Condition Capability to the Simulator for On/Offshore Wind Farm Applications (SOWFA) (Presentation)

Conference · Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2013

OSTI ID:1083379

Churchfield, M. J.

This presentation describes changes made to NREL's OpenFOAM-based wind plant aerodynamics solver so 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 some preliminary results calculations of a stable atmospheric boundary layer and flow over a simple set of hills.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Wind Power Program
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1083379
• Report Number(s): NREL/PR-5000-58397
• Resource Relation: Conference: Presented at 1st Symposium on OpenFOAM in Wind Energy, 20-21 March 2013, Oldenburg, Germany; Related Information: NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

17 WIND ENERGY
ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER
STABLE STRATIFICATION
COMPLEX TERRAIN
COMPLEX FLOW
LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION
SOWFA
NREL
Wind Energy