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Rafael Palacios

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Aeronautics

Professor in Computational Aeroelasticity
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 5075r.palacios CV

 
 
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338City and Guilds BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Deskos:2020:10.1002/we.2458,
author = {Deskos, G and Laizet, S and Palacios, R},
doi = {10.1002/we.2458},
journal = {Wind Energy},
pages = {779--794},
title = {WInc3D: a novel framework for turbulence-resolving simulations of wind farm wake interactions},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/we.2458},
volume = {23},
year = {2020}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - A fast and efficient turbulenceresolving computational framework, dubbed as WInc3D (Wind Incompressible 3Dimensional solver), is presented and validated in this paper. WInc3D offers a unified, highly scalable, highfidelity framework for the study of the flow structures and turbulence of wind farm wakes and their impact on the individual turbines' power and loads. Its unique properties lie on the use of higherorder numerical schemes with “spectrallike” accuracy, a highly efficient parallelisation strategy which allows the code to scale up to O(104) computing processors and software compactness (use of only native solvers/models) with virtually no dependence to external libraries. The work presents an overview of the current modelling capabilities along with model validation. The presented applications demonstrate the ability of WInc3D to be used for testing farmlevel optimal control strategies using turbine wakes under yawed conditions. Examples are provided for two turbines operating inline as well as a small array of 16 turbines operating under “Greedy” and “Cooperative” yaw angle settings. These largescale simulations were performed with up to 8192 computational cores for under 24 hours, for a computational domain discretised with O(109) mesh nodes.
AU  - Deskos,G
AU  - Laizet,S
AU  - Palacios,R
DO  - 10.1002/we.2458
EP  - 794
PY  - 2020///
SN  - 1095-4244
SP  - 779
TI  - WInc3D: a novel framework for turbulence-resolving simulations of wind farm wake interactions
T2  - Wind Energy
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/we.2458
UR  - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/we.2458
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/74913
VL  - 23
ER  -
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