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ITM Web of Conferences
Volume 2, 2014
First Symposium on OpenFOAM® in Wind Energy
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| Article Number | 02002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 9 | |
| Section | Site-assessment in Complex Terrain | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/itmconf/20140202002 | |
| Published online | 18 February 2014 | |
The influence of orographic features on wind farm efficiencies
Fraunhofer IWES, Ammerländer Heerstr. 136, 26129 Oldenburg, Germany
a e-mail: carlos.peralta@iwes.fraunhofer.de
b e-mail: jonas.schmidt@iwes.fraunhofer.de
c e-mail: bernhard.stoevesandt@iwes.fraunhofer.de
We employ Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) solvers for performing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of a neutral atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) for a wind farm located on a complex terrain. We also consider the influence of an adjacent hill/forest on the performance of the wind farm. We study an incompressible, isothermal, stationary wind field by solving the RANS equations using the k-ϵ model. The forest canopy is included as a porous media, with trees of fixed height, using a porous media RANS solver. The presence of wind turbines is taken into account using an actuator disk model, extended for the whole wind farm.
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