4.7 Getting started - WindSim

Results
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VelocityVectorXYZ wind speed vector in 3D space, (UCRT,VCRT,WCRT);
DirectionScalar
wind direction in horizontal plane in degrees;
Direction scalar relative wind direction in horizontal plane relative to incoming wind
direction (degrees)
Turbulent kinetic energy turbulent kinetic energy, KE (m 2 /s 2 )
Turbulent intensity turbulent intensity assuming isotropic turbulence,
100*SQRT((4/3)*KE)/SQRT(UCRT 2 +VCRT 2 ) (%)
Turbulent dissipation rate turbulent dissipation rate, EP (m 2 /s 3 )
Pressure
relative pressure minus hydrostatic term (Pa), the relative
pressure has a value equals to zero at the outlet of the domain
In this tutorial we will extract a scalar and a vector variable. Specify for example Wind
velocity 3D (u,v,w), at 50 m height and Turbulent Kinetic energy at 50 m height. Run the
module and have a look at the report. The Properties panel looks now like in Figure 18 while
in Figure 19 and 20 are respectively reported the speed 3D vector and the turbulent kinetic
energy.
Note that the height for the extraction of results has been left to the default value which is 50
m above ground level; several heights can be defined separated by semicolons. Typical
heights of interest are the hub height of the displaced turbines and the height of wind
measurements.
It is important to stress that the results module is a tool for visualisation of the wind field
simulations, to see how the flow fields are affected by the terrain. The wind speeds are not
by default calibrated with wind measurements. Non dimensional, normalised, plots are also
available, you need to choose the desired normalization type in the property grid (see Figure
18). The Wind Resources and Energy modules are used to weight the CFD with the
climatology data.