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The paper demonstrates when the Wind Atlas Analysis and Application Program (WAsP) is comparable to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in order to use the WAsP wind prediction later for time consuming CFD simulations. Three different numerical methods (WAsP, RANS, LES) for observation of wind flow over the hills are described and compared with the wind-tunnel experiment. The paper shows that WAsP provides reasonably realistic results for the flow over the commonly found in nature shallow hills.
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The authors would like to thank the CSC-IT Center for Science Ltd, Espoo (Finland) for their valuable computation facilities and support. The work presented in this paper is connected to the RENEWTECH project which was aimed for the development of wind power technology and business in South Finland (2012–2014) and was funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
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Agafonova, O., Koivuniemi, A., Conan, B., Chaudhari, A., Haario, H., Hamalainen, J. (2016). Numerical Modelling of Wind Flow over Hills. In: Russo, G., Capasso, V., Nicosia, G., Romano, V. (eds) Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2014. ECMI 2014. Mathematics in Industry(), vol 22. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23413-7_6
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