Delft3D turbine turbulence module

Software · Mon Apr 18 00:00:00 EDT 2016

OSTI ID:1311625

Chartrand, Chris; Jagers, Bert

The DOE has funded Sandia National Labs (SNL) to develop an open-source modeling tool to guide the design and layout of marine hydrokinetic (MHK) arrays to maximize power production while minimizing environmental effects. This modeling framework simulates flows through and around a MHK arrays while quantifying environmental responses. As an augmented version of the Dutch company, Deltares’s, environmental hydrodynamics code, Delft3D, SNL-Delft3D includes a new module that simulates energy conversion (momentum withdrawal) by MHK devices with commensurate changes in the turbulent kinetic energy and its dissipation rate.

• Short Name / Acronym: Delft3D-CEC; 004717MLTPL00
• Project Type: GPL v3
• Version: 00
• Programming Language(s): Medium: X; OS: Windows/Linux
• Research Organization: Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• Contributing Organization: Sandia National Laboratories Deltares
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 1311625
• Country of Origin: United States