Similar to other renewable energy sources, wind energy is characterized by a low power
density. Hence, for wind energy to make considerable contributions to the world's overall …

Large eddy simulations (LES) of wind farms have the capability to provide valuable and
detailed information about the dynamics of wind turbine wakes. For this reason, their use …

A verification and validation study was performed using the open source computational fluid
dynamics solver OpenFOAM version 2.0. 0 for incompressible bluff body fluid flows. This …

Efficient exploitation of exascale architectures requires rethinking of the numerical
algorithms used in many large-scale applications. These architectures favor algorithms that …

Wind energy is crucial to the transition to a carbon-free world. However, new wind farms are
increasingly sited on complex terrain, whose influence on turbine performance is still not …

Modern society is confronted with emerging threats from chemical, biological, and
radiological (CBR) hazardous substances, which are intensively utilized in the chemical …

Abstract A coupled Large Eddy Simulation (LES) and turbine aeroelastic code was used to
investigate the impact of directionally sheared inflows on wake interaction in a four-inline …

A residual-based variational multi-scale (VMS) modeling framework is applied to simulate
atmospheric flow over complex environmental terrains. The VMS framework is verified and …

Improving the accuracy of the evaluation on the performance of wind farms in complex
terrain under the actual atmosphere is crucial to the sustainable development of wind power …

Distributed mass balance models, which translate micrometeorological conditions into local
melt rates, have proven deficient to reflect the energy flux variability on mountain glaciers …