Title: Simulation of tidal stream turbines using Hydro3D

Citation
Ouro Barba P (2017). Simulation of tidal stream turbines using Hydro3D. Cardiff University. http://doi.org/10.17035/d.2017.0033982819

Dataset Details

Publisher: Cardiff University

Date (year) of data becoming publicly available: 2017

Data format: .for, .cin

Software Required: Tecplot 360

Estimated total storage size of dataset: Less than 100 megabytes

Number of Files In Dataset: 1

DOI : 10.17035/d.2017.0033982819

DOI URL: http://doi.org/10.17035/d.2017.0033982819

Description

Hydro3D is an open-source Large-Eddy Simulation based code used for hydraulic engineering applications and has been recently developed to simulate tidal stream turbines. Hydro3D is written in FORTRAN 95 and is parallelised with MPI, both required to be installed prior code compilation. For a more detailed description of Hydro3D, its current development and related publications please visit: http://hydro3dproject.github.io/

Note that the current dataset gathers the input files set to simulate a single horizontal axis tidal stream turbine operating at its maximum performance and with artificial turbulence at the inflow condition.

The input files (.cin) used in Hydro3D are:

- control.cin - in this file all the flow conditions, numerical schemes and output parameters are set.

- geom.cin - is used to define the properties of any solid body (e.g. tidal turbine) used during the simulation.

- mdmap.cin and infodom.cin - these files indicate the division pattern of the computational domain in rectangular blocks together with their assignation to CPUs.

Research results based upon these data are published at

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2017.04.003 and

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2018.10.013