Leveraging Cloud Computing and Opensource Tools to provide Superior Results, Faster

摘要

Decision making is influenced by the complexity of the problem, the skill of the decision maker, and the time pressure. The global wind industry has become more mature and sophisticated in the past half-decade, with a better understanding of wind farm modeling. However, the lack of appropriate calculation power still seriously affects quality decision-making as engineers often have to compromise on simulations accuracy levels in order to be able to deliver results with tight project timelines. Thanks to on-demand elastic cloud computing and freely available opensource solvers, all the simulation jobs can be run at the same time on powerful servers so that engineers are left with more time to tune models and to improve accuracy. Deploying simultaneously opensource solvers on an unlimited number of elastic cloud servers allow getting almost instant results with no limitation in number of cells (i.e. resolution) while discretizing the atmospheric boundary layer, with no limitation in number of directional runs while discretizing the directional scenarios and with no limitation in number of solver iterations while solving the flow equations.