https://github.com/turbinesFoam/turbinesFoam

Actuator line modeling extension library for OpenFOAM.
https://github.com/turbinesFoam/turbinesFoam

actuator-line airfoils blade-element openfoam turbines wind-energy

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Actuator line modeling extension library for OpenFOAM.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/turbinesFoam/turbinesFoam
• Owner: turbinesFoam
• License: other
• Created: 2014-06-24T19:30:49.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2025-02-13T15:44:37.000Z (10 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-26T14:42:01.922Z (7 months ago)
• Topics: actuator-line, airfoils, blade-element, openfoam, turbines, wind-energy
• Language: C++
• Homepage:
• Size: 2.34 MB
• Stars: 125
• Watchers: 23
• Forks: 65
• Open Issues: 148
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
  • License: LICENSE

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README

          
# turbinesFoam

[![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/4234/turbinesFoam/turbinesFoam.svg)](https://zenodo.org/badge/latestdoi/4234/turbinesFoam/turbinesFoam)

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turbinesFoam is a library for simulating wind and marine hydrokinetic turbines

in OpenFOAM using the actuator line method.

[![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/4604869/10141523/f2e3ad9a-65da-11e5-971c-b736abd30c3b.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THZvV4R1vow)

Be sure to check out the

[development snapshot videos on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOlLyh5gytG8n8D3V1lDeZ3e9fJf9ux-e).

## Installation

### Docker

Spin up an interactive shell with:

```sh

docker run --rm -it -v $PWD:/work ghcr.io/turbinesfoam/turbinesfoam

```

### Compile from source

```sh

cd $WM_PROJECT_USER_DIR

git clone https://github.com/turbinesFoam/turbinesFoam.git

cd turbinesFoam

./Allwmake

```

## Usage

See the tutorials located in the `tutorials` directory.

## Contributing

Pull requests are very welcome!

See the [issue tracker](https://github.com/petebachant/turbinesFoam/issues)

for more details.

## Features

`fvOptions` classes for adding actuator lines and turbines constructed from

actuator lines to any compatible solver or turbulence model, e.g.,

`simpleFoam`, `pimpleFoam`, `interFoam`, etc.

## Publications

Bachant, P., Goude, A., and Wosnik, M. (2016) [_Actuator line modeling of vertical-axis turbines_](https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.01449). arXiv preprint 1605.01449.

## How to cite

The latest release of turbinesFoam can be cited via DOI thanks to Zenodo: [![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/4234/turbinesFoam/turbinesFoam.svg)](https://zenodo.org/badge/latestdoi/4234/turbinesFoam/turbinesFoam)

## Acknowledgements

This work was funded through a National Science Foundation CAREER award,

principal investigator Martin Wosnik ([NSF CBET

1150797](http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1150797), Energy for

Sustainability, original program manager Geoffrey A. Prentice, current program

manager Gregory L. Rorrer).

OpenFOAM is free, open source software for computational fluid dynamics (CFD),

developed primarily by [CFD Direct](http://cfd.direct), on behalf of the

[OpenFOAM](http://openfoam.org) Foundation.

Interpolation, Gaussian projection, and vector rotation functions adapted from

NREL's [SOWFA](https://github.com/NREL/SOWFA).