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Can HPC unlock the future of wind power?

Posted By: Intelligent Light
Date:Sat, 24 Feb 2018, 3:58 a.m.

ScienceNode magazine article highlights CFD, HPC and in the role of situ processing in unsteady simulations of entire wind farms at the University of Wyoming.

In-situ processing enables full wind farm simulation by reducing file size from 234TB to under 1TB

http://bit.ly/SciNodeWyo

The University of Wyoming and Intelligent Light are performing unsteady CFD on full wind farms with terrain features. Intelligent Light's Earl Duque and Univ. of Wyoming researchers Prof. Dimitri Mavriplis, Michael Brazell and Andrew Kirby were able to model wind farms in unique ways. Using the Cheyenne supercomputer at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)-Wyoming Supercomputer Alliance.

"In-situ has helped reduce the amount of 3D data that we need to store. Just the restart files take 10 TB on a 12-hour run. Automation has gone way up; we have scripts that go straight from simulation to animation. Also, in-situ has helped with debugging—I don't need to pull down 3D data, and I can just use slices, save those to a FieldView XDB file, and then view that on my local machine."
Michael Brazell, University of Wyoming

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