OpenFOAM computation of interacting wind turbine flows and control (I): free rotating case
by Goong Chen; Cong Gu; Hichem Hajaiej; Philip J. Morris; Eric G. Paterson; Alexey Sergeev
International Journal of Hydromechatronics (IJHM), Vol. 4, No. 1, 2021

Abstract: We develop high-fidelity blade resolved CFD for interacting turbine flows by the open source software OpenFOAM. Multi-turbine configurations are considered, aimed at a study of wind-turbine flows and their interactions. The preprocessing, coding, turbulence modelling and visualisation are discussed and described. An extension of our CFD work to a turbine operating in a two-phase flow is also included. Snapshots of interacting turbine flows are illustrated and dynamic motions can be viewed in animation videos. Two turbulence models, RANS k-ε and LES, were used.

Online publication date: Mon, 12-Apr-2021

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