Wind64

No technology is without trade-offs. Wind64 introduces several new demands on engineering teams:

The renewable energy sector has embraced Wind64 wholeheartedly. A single offshore wind turbine operates in a chaotic wake environment. For a farm of 200 turbines, legacy solvers had to assume axisymmetric, steady-state conditions. Wind64 enables fully transient, three-dimensional simulations of entire farms, including wave-structure interaction and atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) turbulence. Recent studies using the Wind64-based solver OpenFOAM-64 demonstrated that optimized turbine spacing informed by full-farm LES can increase annual energy production (AEP) by 8–12% without adding hardware. wind64