Development of a Time-Height Profile Assimilation Technique for Large-Eddy Simulation

被引:16
作者
Allaerts, Dries [1 ,2 ]
Quon, Eliot [2 ]
Draxl, Caroline [2 ]
Churchfield, Matthew [2 ]
机构
[1] Delft Univ Technol, Fac Aerosp Engn, Kluyverweg 1, NL-2629 HS Delft, Netherlands
[2] Natl Renewable Energy Lab NREL, 15013 Denver West Pkwy, Golden, CO 80401 USA
关键词
Data assimilation; Diurnal cycle; Large-eddy simulation; Mesoscale-to-microscale coupling; Weather Research and Forecasting model; BOUNDARY-LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC-ENVIRONMENT; WEATHER RESEARCH; MODEL; TURBULENCE; PARAMETERS; FLOWS;
D O I
10.1007/s10546-020-00538-5
中图分类号
P4 [大气科学(气象学)];
学科分类号
0706 ; 070601 ;
摘要
Mesoscale-to-microscale coupling (MMC) aims to address the limited scope of traditional large-eddy simulations by driving the microscale flow with information concerning large-scale weather patterns provided by mesoscale models. We present a new offline MMC technique for horizontally homogeneous microscale flow conditions, in which internal forcing terms are computed based on mesoscale time-height profiles of mean-flow quantities. The advantage of such an approach is that it can be used to drive a microscale simulation with either mesoscale or observational data, and that it does not rely on specific terms in the mesoscale budget equations, which are typically not part of the default output of a mesoscale solver. The performance of the proposed profile assimilation technique is assessed based on the simulation of a typical diurnal cycle over the Scaled Wind Farm Technology site in west Texas. Results indicate that simple data assimilation techniques lead to unphysically high levels of shear and turbulence caused by the algorithm's inability to cope with inaccuracies in the mesoscale time-height profiles. Modifying the algorithm to account for vertical coherence in the mesoscale source terms gives the microscale solver a greater ability to correct the provided mesoscale time-height profiles, leading to improved predictions of shear and turbulence statistics. The resulting turbulence statistics are in good agreement with meteorological tower observations and simulation results obtained with state-of-the-art coupling techniques using mesoscale budget components.
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页码:329 / 348
页数:20
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