turbinesFoam
A library for simulating wind and marine hydrokinetic turbines in OpenFOAM using the actuator line method.
https://github.com/turbinesfoam/turbinesfoam
Category: Renewable Energy
Sub Category: Wind Energy
Keywords
actuator-line airfoils blade-element openfoam turbines wind-energy
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Actuator line modeling extension library for OpenFOAM.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/turbinesfoam/turbinesfoam
- Owner: turbinesFoam
- License: other
- Created: 2014-06-24T19:30:49.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2025-02-13T15:44:37.000Z (2 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-18T22:47:19.602Z (9 days ago)
- Topics: actuator-line, airfoils, blade-element, openfoam, turbines, wind-energy
- Language: C++
- Homepage:
- Size: 2.34 MB
- Stars: 125
- Watchers: 23
- Forks: 64
- Open Issues: 148
- Releases: 12
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
- License: LICENSE
README.md
turbinesFoam
turbinesFoam is a library for simulating wind and marine hydrokinetic turbines
in OpenFOAM using the actuator line method.
Be sure to check out the
development snapshot videos on YouTube.
Installation
Docker
Spin up an interactive shell with:
docker run --rm -it -v $PWD:/work ghcr.io/turbinesfoam/turbinesfoam
Compile from source
cd $WM_PROJECT_USER_DIR
git clone https://github.com/turbinesFoam/turbinesFoam.git
cd turbinesFoam
./Allwmake
Usage
See the tutorials located in the tutorials directory.
Contributing
Pull requests are very welcome!
See the issue tracker
for more details.
Features
fvOptions classes for adding actuator lines and turbines constructed from
actuator lines to any compatible solver or turbulence model, e.g.,
simpleFoam, pimpleFoam, interFoam, etc.
Publications
Bachant, P., Goude, A., and Wosnik, M. (2016) Actuator line modeling of vertical-axis turbines. arXiv preprint 1605.01449.
How to cite
The latest release of turbinesFoam can be cited via DOI thanks to Zenodo:
Acknowledgements
This work was funded through a National Science Foundation CAREER award,
principal investigator Martin Wosnik (NSF CBET
1150797, Energy for
Sustainability, original program manager Geoffrey A. Prentice, current program
manager Gregory L. Rorrer).
OpenFOAM is free, open source software for computational fluid dynamics (CFD),
developed primarily by CFD Direct, on behalf of the
OpenFOAM Foundation.
Interpolation, Gaussian projection, and vector rotation functions adapted from
NREL's SOWFA.
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- Description: Actuator line modeling in OpenFOAM.
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