摘要
In numerical simulations of tidal current farms,large-scale computational fluid dynamic(CFD)simulations with a high-resolution grid are required to calculate the interactions between tidal turbines.In this study,we develop a numerical simulation method for tidal current turbines using the lattice Boltzmann method(LBM),which is suitable for large-scale CFD simulations.Tidal turbines are modeled by using the actuator line(ACL)model,which represents each blade as a group of actuator points in a line.In order to validate our LBM-ACL model,we perform simulations for two interacting tidal turbines,and results of turbine performance are compared with a water tank experiment.The proposed model successfully reproduces the variation of the torque due to wave effects and mean turbine performance.We have demonstrated a large-scale simulation for ten tidal turbines using 8.55×10^(8) grid points and 16 GPUs of Tesla P100 and the simulation has been completed within 9 hours with the LBM performance of 392 MLUPS per GPU.
基金
This work was supported by the JSPS KAKENHI(Grant No.JP19H02363).The computation was carried out using the computer resource offered under the category of General Projects by Research Institute for Information Technology,Kyushu University.
