Abstract RANS (Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes) has become one of the mainstream
methods to determine the wind field in the wind resource assessment of the complex terrain …

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 high computational demand of large-eddy simulations (LESs) remains the biggest
obstacle for a wider applicability of the method in the field of wind energy. Recent progress …

The impact of heterogeneous forest canopies and complex terrain on the horizontal
distortion of the inflow is studied. Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) of the neutral Atmospheric …

As the increasing hub height of modern wind turbine, wind shear model is generally adopted
as a useful tool to extrapolate wind speed available to higher levels for wind power …

Wind turbines are increasing in size and operate more frequently above the atmospheric
surface layer, which requires improved inflow models for numerical simulations of turbine …

An open source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver has been incorporated into the
WindNinja modeling framework. WindNinja is widely used by wildland fire managers, as …

The use of graphics processing units (GPUs) has facilitated unprecedented performance
gains for computational fluids dynamics in recent years. In many industries this has enabled …

We present a new algorithm for the estimation of the plant area density (PAD) profiles and
plant area index (PAI) for forested areas based on data from airborne lidar. The new element …

This work presents a methodology for the Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) of the continuous
transition of atmospheric stability over forests along the diurnal cycle and its effect on the …