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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-623-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-623-2020
Research article
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26 May 2020
Research article |  | 26 May 2020

Actuator line simulations of wind turbine wakes using the lattice Boltzmann method

Henrik Asmuth, Hugo Olivares-Espinosa, and Stefan Ivanell

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The presented work investigates the potential of the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) for numerical simulations of wind turbine wakes. The LBM is a rather novel, alternative approach for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) that allows for significantly faster simulations. The study shows that the method provides similar results when compared to classical CFD approaches while only requiring a fraction of the computational demand.
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