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Old   April 14, 2016, 12:00
Question Wind Turbine Simulation
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Hi everyone,
I want to model a single Wind turbine with Actuator Line theory in openFOAM. but I just don't know which turbulence Model is the Best for this task. can you help me?
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Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't actuator line theory used to look at effect of wake on a series of turbines (wind farm)? I'm not sure you will get anything useful out of this simulation with only a single rotor.
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Hi everyone,
I want to model a single Wind turbine with Actuator Line theory in openFOAM. but I just don't know which turbulence Model is the Best for this task. can you help me?
Thanks
I am not familiar with openFoam but I have seen many people use Dyn. Smag. and simple Smagorinsky with AL LES simulations. the thing is you should have at least 15 points per blade.

maybe you find these interesting
M.J.Churchfield P.J.Moriarty G. Vijayakumar J.G.Brasseur, 2010, Wind Energy-Related Atmospheric Boundary Layer Large-Eddy Simulationm Using OpenFOAM, NREL/CP-500-48905

and with almost the same authors another conf. paper
2012, A Large-Eddy Simulation of Wind-Plant Aerodynamics, NREL/CP-5000-53554

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Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't actuator line theory used to look at effect of wake on a series of turbines (wind farm)? I'm not sure you will get anything useful out of this simulation with only a single rotor.
yes and no. you can use it anywhere you want as soon as you know why you're using AL.
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