Articles | Volume 9, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-297-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-297-2024
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05 Feb 2024
Research article |  | 05 Feb 2024

TOSCA – an open-source, finite-volume, large-eddy simulation (LES) environment for wind farm flows

Sebastiano Stipa, Arjun Ajay, Dries Allaerts, and Joshua Brinkerhoff

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Toolbox fOr Stratified Convective Atmospheres (TOSCA) Sebastiano Stipa et al. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/Q4VAF

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In the current study, we introduce TOSCA (Toolbox fOr Stratified Convective Atmospheres), an open-source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tool, and demonstrate its capabilities by simulating the flow around a large wind farm, operating in realistic flow conditions. This is one of the grand challenges of the present decade and can yield better insight into physical phenomena that strongly affect wind farm operation but which are not yet fully understood.
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