ECMI 2014: Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2014 pp 27-34 | Cite as
Numerical Modelling of Wind Flow over Hills
Abstract
The paper demonstrates when the Wind Atlas Analysis and Application Program (WAsP) is comparable to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in order to use the WAsP wind prediction later for time consuming CFD simulations. Three different numerical methods (WAsP, RANS, LES) for observation of wind flow over the hills are described and compared with the wind-tunnel experiment. The paper shows that WAsP provides reasonably realistic results for the flow over the commonly found in nature shallow hills.
Keywords
Flow over hills LES RANS Turbulence WAsP Wind tunnel experimentNotes
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank the CSC-IT Center for Science Ltd, Espoo (Finland) for their valuable computation facilities and support. The work presented in this paper is connected to the RENEWTECH project which was aimed for the development of wind power technology and business in South Finland (2012–2014) and was funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
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