The increasing size of wind turbines, with rotors already spanning more than 150 m
diameter and hub heights above 100 m, requires proper modeling of the atmospheric …

Over the past two decades, computational fluid dynamics and particularly the finite volume
method have been increasingly used to predict the performance of wind turbines within their …

We review developments in the field of boundary-layer flow over complex topography,
focussing on the period from 1970 to the present day. The review follows two parallel …

Abstract Accurate and reliable Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations of wind
flow over natural complex terrain are important for a wide range of applications including …

Bolund measurements were used for a blind comparison of microscale flow models. Fifty-
seven models ranging from numerical to physical were used, including large-eddy …

We present an analysis of data from a measurement campaign performed at the Bolund
peninsula in Denmark in the winter of 2007–2008. Bolund is a small isolated hill exhibiting a …

The simulation of Atmospheric Boundary Layer (ABL) flows is commonly performed using
commercial CFD codes with RANS turbulence modeling, applying the standard k-ε model …

The current trend of increasing the electricity production from wind energy has led to the
installation of wind farms in areas of greater orographic complexity, raising doubts on the …

This paper exposes the risk of generalization of wind conditions from a single met-mast
measurement to be representative of the actual flow field in a wind farm situated in complex …

The evaluation of turbulence closure models for large-eddy simulation (LES) has primarily
been performed over flat terrain, where comparisons with theory and observations are …