Investigations on offshore wind turbine inflow modelling using numerical weather prediction coupled with local-scale computational fluid dynamics

A Castorrini, S Gentile, E Geraldi… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
The computational power available nowadays to industry and research paves the way to
increasingly more accurate systems for the wind resource prediction. A promising approach …

[HTML][HTML] Lessons learned in coupling atmospheric models across scales for onshore and offshore wind energy

SE Haupt, B Kosović, LK Berg, CM Kaul… - Wind Energy …, 2023 - wes.copernicus.org
Abstract The Mesoscale to Microscale Coupling team, part of the US Department of Energy
Atmosphere to Electrons (A2e) initiative, has studied various important challenges related to …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of different source terms and inflow direction in atmospheric boundary modeling over the complex terrain site of Perdigão

K Venkatraman, TO Hågbo, S Buckingham… - Wind Energy …, 2023 - wes.copernicus.org
Assessing wind conditions in complex terrain requires computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
simulations incorporating an accurate parameterization of forest canopy effects and Coriolis …

ERF: Energy Research and Forecasting Model

A Lattanzi, A Almgren, E Quon, M Natarajan… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
High performance computing (HPC) architectures have undergone rapid development in
recent years. As a result, established software suites face an ever increasing challenge to …

[HTML][HTML] Measurement-driven large-eddy simulations of a diurnal cycle during a wake-steering field campaign

E Quon - Wind Energy Science, 2024 - wes.copernicus.org
High-fidelity flow modeling with data assimilation enables accurate representation of the
wind farm operating environment under realistic, nonstationary atmospheric conditions …

Microscale simulations of extreme events in complex terrain driven by mesoscalar budget components

M Avila, O Lehmkuhl, J Navarro… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work, we apply a downscaling strategy to analyze extreme weather events that may
impact wind farm operation. The coupling applies mesoscale momentum budget …

FLOW-Alaiz benchmark for coupled terrain and array interaction flow models. Baseline Results

JS Rodrigo, G Oxley, BT Olsen - Journal of Physics: Conference …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The FLOW-Alaiz benchmark is established to enhance flow models in complex terrain,
building on insights and datasets from previous IEA Task 31 benchmarks around the same …

Effect of different source terms in atmospheric boundary modelling over the complex terrain site of Perdigao

K Venkatraman, TO Hågbo… - Wind Energy …, 2022 - wes.copernicus.org
The assessment of wind conditions in complex terrain requires the use of Computational
Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations incorporating an accurate parameterization of forest …