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wind energy resource evaluation in a site of central italy ... - WindSim

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The results shown above demonstrate that the vertical pr<strong>of</strong>iles extracted from the<strong>central</strong> cell <strong>in</strong> the Y-direction <strong>of</strong> a 3D “cos 2 ” hill are the same as those extracted froma “flatted” Y-direction hill, which doesn’t <strong>in</strong>troduce therefore any tri-dimensionaleffect on the flow. This is a strik<strong>in</strong>g result, and it is useful for further simulations,because it’s demonstrated that a very th<strong>in</strong> 3D “cos 2 ” hill, built up with the automaticprocedure <strong>of</strong> the W<strong>in</strong>dSim s<strong>of</strong>tware, can be used to understand the behavior <strong>of</strong> anair flow over a 2D hill.3.2 Speed-up effectThe speed-up effect has been studied for the case shown <strong>in</strong> figure 3.1, vary<strong>in</strong>g thevalue <strong>of</strong> the roughness height. Particularly, 3 tests have been done, for R=0,01 m ,R=0,3 m and R=0,6 m.The follow<strong>in</strong>g picture shows the development <strong>of</strong> the speed vertical pr<strong>of</strong>ilesmeasured <strong>in</strong> the various stations, upstream and downstream the hill top (located <strong>in</strong>station number 6).Figure 3.4: Development <strong>of</strong> the vertical pr<strong>of</strong>iles upstream the hill-top.30

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