Description
Fuga is a linearized CFD-RANS solver for wind turbine wakes, developed by DTU during the last two decades. Fuga is extremely fast compared to normal CFD-RANS simulations, keeping a medium fidelity accuracy which is superior to engineering wake models. We present new developments in this model, which aim to cover more physical aspects of wakes:- Turbine drag force represented by delta functions: the original Fuga version uses an Actuator Disk Model as a set of Chapeau functions, which, llinearly combined, exert a uniform force over the turbine rotor area. We present a different approach based in a linear combination of delta-like functions, which can extend to non-uniform forcing, accounts for radial dependance of force, as well as wind shear.
- Wake deflection: the formulation of Fuga is not supposed to represent the non-linear effects observed in yaw misalignment. Nevetheless, wake steering can be included using a curvilinear coordinate transformation . Keeping the advantages of the linear solver, this new approach represent the asymetric non-linear effects during wake steering. in a reasonable fashion.
| Period | 23 May 2023 |
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| Held at | University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom |
| Degree of Recognition | International |