Toward a GPU-Accelerated Immersed Boundary Method for Wind Forecasting Over Complex Terrain
Department of Mechanical & Biomedical Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho
ASME 2012 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting collocated with the ASME 2012 Heat Transfer Summer Conference and the ASME 2012 10th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, 2012
@article{deleon2012toward,
title={Toward a GPU-Accelerated Immersed Boundary Method for Wind Forecasting Over Complex Terrain},
author={DeLeon, Rey and Felzien, Kyle and Senocak, Inanc},
year={2012}
}
A short-term wind power forecasting capability can be a valuable tool in the renewable energy industry to address load-balancing issues that arise from intermittent wind fields. Although numerical weather prediction models have been used to forecast winds, their applicability to micro-scale atmospheric boundary layer flows and ability to predict wind speeds at turbine hub height with a desired accuracy is not clear. To address this issue, we develop a multi-GPU parallel flow solver to forecast winds over complex terrain at the micro-scale, where computational domain size can range from meters to several kilometers. In the solver, we adopt the immersed boundary method and the Lagrangian dynamic large-eddy simulation model and extend them to atmospheric flows. The computations are accelerated on GPU clusters with a dual-level parallel implementation that interleaves MPI with CUDA. We evaluate the flow solver components against test problems and obtain preliminary results of flow over Bolund Hill, a coastal hill in Denmark.
September 28, 2013 by hgpu
