Barlovento Recursos Naturales uses CFD models for the Wind Potential Assessment.
ADVANTAGES OF CFD MODELS:
Wind modelling in the most complex terrains:
- Advanced meshing technology.
- Advanced modelling of turbulence transport.
- Advance modelling of forest canopies.
- Consideration of atmospheric thermal stability.
- More options:
- Wind production prediction.
- Correction of lidar data.
- Client / Server version.
- Wind atlas modulo.
- Automatic mesh generation with grid refinement at key locations.
- Fast and powerful solver based on the latest numerical techniques for atmospheric flow.
- Full resolution of the 3D Navier-Stokes equations.
- Automatic generation of boundary conditions.
- User-friendly graphical interface.
FEATURES:
A ready-to-use tool to design more profitable wind farms.
- Wind rose and Weilbull distribution at each result point.
- Consideration of measured turbulence.
- Automatic correction of power curves related to air density.
- Multiple masts analysis.
- Wind farm production and losses assessment (wake effects).
- IEC 61400 site suitability analysis.
- Compatible with standard formats of the wind energy industry.
- Full integration of mesoscale data into microscale computations.
Accurate and full assessment of wind characteristics.
- Wind speed and direction.
- Inflow angle.
- Turbulence intensity.
- Wind energy density.
- Wind shear.