Numerical study of the influence of cliffs in wind power generation

• Grant number: 12/25121-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: May 01, 2013
• End date: April 30, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Mechanical Engineering - Transport Phenomena
• Principal Investigator: Leandro Franco de Souza
• Grantee: Patrícia Sartori
• Supervisor: Thorsten Stoesser
• Host Institution: Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação (ICMC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Cardiff University, Wales
• Associated to the scholarship: 11/00647-9 - Numerical Study of coastal cilff influence in the wind energy generation, BP.DR

Abstract

This project presents the objectives of the internship of the student Patricia Sartori, regularly enrolled in the Graduate Program in Computer Science and Computational Mathematics (ICMC-USP), being developed in collaboration with Cardiff University in Wales - UK. The emphasis of the research is to understand the physics of atmospheric flow over cliffs and then predict the best location for a wind turbine in order to obtain the best possible production of energy. As the study is of computational nature, this stage aims to bring the code to the methodology of Large Eddy Simulation - LES, combined with an immersed boundary method (IBM), to be implemented to simulate turbulent flows. At the end of the project aims to use the LES methodology with dynamic subgrid model. Cases with different heights and cliffs velocity values of the atmospheric boundary layer will be simulated. The partnership with Cardiff University, more specifically with the research group of Prof. Thorsten Stoesser, will be of great importance for the development and implementation of the code. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

PETRI, LARISSA A.; SARTORI, PATRICIA; ROGENSKI, JOSUEL K.; DE SOUZA, LEANDRO F.. Verification and validation of a Direct Numerical Simulation code. COMPUTER METHODS IN APPLIED MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING, v. 291, p. 266-279, JUL 1 2015. (11/08010-0, 11/00647-9, 10/00880-2, 12/25121-2, 11/19215-1)