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This work presents the preliminary study of simulations of the atmospheric boundary layer over the coastal terrain. The Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations approach is applied to numerical modelling. The primary goal of the research is to assess the value of wind speed changes due to ground topography at planned measurement place near the sea coast. The simulations of the airflow have been done using the OpenFOAM open source software. The influence of the turbulence models, the dimensions of the computational domain and the mesh size on predicted wind speed is investigated.
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The work is carried out within the project New European Wind Atlas (NEWA), ENER/FP7/618122/NEWA ERA-NET PLUS, supported by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration.
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Upnere, S., Jekabsons, N., Gulbe, L., Bezrukovs, V., Bezrukovs, V. (2019). Simulation of the Flow Field over the Coastal Terrain. In: Abdel Wahab, M. (eds) Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Numerical Modelling in Engineering . NME 2018. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2273-0_31
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