O. Temel, J. van Beeck (VKI)

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has been used for the modeling of the atmospheric boundary layer for the wind energy assessment studies in the last decades. In spite of the high spatial resolution that can be reach by the CFD models, the inflow conditions of CFD simulations depend on large-scale atmospheric motions that the CFD codes are not designed to work with. Therefore, CFD codes must be coupled with the numerical weather prediction (NWP) codes that can sustain realistic inflow conditions in order to perform more reliable wind energy resource studies. This present study is devoted to the development and application of a numerical methodology for the modelling of atmospheric boundary layer by using coupled OpenFOAM/WRF simulations.