Investigating the relationship between simulation parameters and flow variables in simulating atmospheric gravity waves for wind energy applications

Khan, Mehtab Ahmed; Allaerts, Dries; Watson, Simon J.; Churchfield, Matthew J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-1167-2025

Articles | Volume 10, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-1167-2025

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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-1167-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 6

Research article

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01 Jul 2025

Research article |

| 01 Jul 2025

Investigating the relationship between simulation parameters and flow variables in simulating atmospheric gravity waves for wind energy applications

Mehtab Ahmed Khan, Dries Allaerts, Simon J. Watson, and Matthew J. Churchfield

Data sets

Supplementary data to publication: Investigating the Relationship between Simulation Parameters and Flow Variables in Simulating Atmospheric Gravity Waves in Wind Energy Applications Mehtab Khan et al. https://doi.org/10.4121/6737d3a7-cdeb-41d3-b0b2-11915e4b6cec

Short summary

To guide realistic atmospheric gravity wave simulations, we study flow over a two-dimensional hill and through a wind farm canopy, examining optimal domain size and damping layer setup. Wave properties based on non-dimensional numbers determine the optimal domain and damping parameters. Accurate solutions require the domain length to exceed the effective horizontal wavelength, height, and damping thickness to equal the vertical wavelength and non-dimensional damping strength between 1 and 10.