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.