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NERSC Initiative for Scientific Exploration (NISE) 2011 Awards

Tall Tower Wind Energy Monitoring and Numerical Model Validation in Southern Nevada

Michael Kaplan, Desert Research Institute

NISE project m965

NISE Award: 750,000 Hours
Award Date: January 2011

In order to further assess the wind energy potential for Nevada, a new wind energy monitoring tower platform will be established in southern Nevada and the accuracy of several computational numerical models used to estimate the wind resource will be evaluated using data collected from the modeling platform. This project will concentrate on establishing the platform and the preliminary evaluations of the numerical models.

The 120 meter tower will provide continuous wind monitoring data at wind turbine hub and blade heights. Data from the platform and the evaluation numerical models' accuracy will improve wind resource maps, and identify the wind shear and turbulence regimes at the wind turbine hub and blade heights. The results of this project will be transferable to other Southwestern areas whose climates are similar to southern Nevada and the surrounding region.

The Operational Multiscale Environment Model with Grid Adaptivity (OMEGA) will be used for static adaptive grid simulations in the geographic region of the wind measurement platform. Preliminary evaluations of the accuracy of OMEGA will be made by comparing model estimates of wind speed and direction to speeds and measured by available meteorological instruments and towers in the region.

The present research evaluates the ability of OMEGA to reproduce point winds as compared to the observational data from the Stone Cabin Tower (near Tonopah, NV) at 40 m, 60 m, and 80 m. Model sensitivity to horizontal grid resolution, initial conditions, and terrain dataset resolution will also be tested. OMEGA will be run over five different horizontal grid resolutions with minimum horizontal edge lengths of: 18 km, 6 km, 2 km, 666 m, and 222 m. For each resolution, the model will be initialized using both the Global Forecasting System (GFS) and North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR) at both 00 and 12 GMT to determine model sensitivity to the resolution and time of the initial conditions. Additionally, the 666m and 222m minimum grid resolution runs will be run with both a 90m and 1km resolution terrain database to determine the sensitivity to terrain features. Each group of model runs over the 30- day period of interest will then be analyzed using statistical techniques to determine how the model-generated winds compare with the observed winds. The statistical results will then be compared with results from MM5 and WRF simulations to determine the most appropriate model for wind energy potential studies in complex terrain.

Table of Contents

  1. Overview
  2. New potential energy surface for ozone molecule
  3. Hybrid OpenMP/MPI approach to R-matrix scattering
  4. Global Effects on the Dynamics of Plasmoids and Flux Ropes During Magnetic Reconnection
  5. MD Simulations of Liquid Water Films at the Boundary Between Gas Hydrate and Mineral Surfaces
  6. Systems Biology Knowledge Base
  7. Sparse Lanczos and GMRES Solvers in Co-Array Fortran (CAF)
  8. Numerical Study of Mode Conversion and Ion Heating in Laboratory-Relevant Plasmas
  9. Large Scale Numerical Study of Bootstrap Current in Edge Pedestal Plasma
  10. Ab initio simulation of mechanical properties of bulk metallic glass and Mo-bases alloys
  11. Improving Algorithms and Resolution for the Ocean-Atmosphere Reanalysis for Climate Applications OARCA (1850-2012)
  12. High resolution modeling to identify the location of the meltwater flood responsible for the Younger Dryas cold episode
  13. Numerical Investigations of Symmetry Breaking, Magnetism and the Pseudogap in the Three-Orbital Hubbard Model
  14. Breaking Magnetic Field Lines with Turbulence
  15. Development of CALPHAD type approach to thermal conductivity aided by first-principles phonon approach
  16. An Efficient Real-Space Approach to Calculating Auger Spectra
  17. Surface Instabilities and Subgrid Scale Models in Computational Fluid Dynamics
  18. Self-Healing of Polymer Films
  19. Computational Studies of Methanol Steam Reforming
  20. Laser Acceleration of Ions Using Few Times Critical Density Gas Targets
  21. An Integrative Strategy to Model Complex Biological Assemblies
  22. Unveiling Microbial Carbon Cycling Processes in Key U.S. Soils using "omics"
  23. Semiclassical Approaches for Clean Energy Resources
  24. Tall Tower Wind Energy Monitoring and Numerical Model Validation in Southern Nevada
  25. Threading EnergyPlus Using OpenMP
  26. First-Principles Calculation of Phonon-Assisted Optical Absorption in Indirect-Band-Gap Semiconductors.
  27. Deep Defect States and Valence Skipping in Narrow Band Gap Semiconductors
  28. Material Simulations in Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP)
  29. High Fidelity Study of Multiscale Multiphase Lubricant Flow in High-Speed Gear Systems
  30. Semiclassical Approaches for Clean Energy Resources
  31. First Principles Characterization of van der Waals Dispersion Interactions
  32. Simulating ETG Plasma Turbulence with Impurities
  33. Coupled Electronic and Nuclear Dynamics in Enzymes and Photocatalysts
  34. Proton-coupled electron transfer in photocatalysis and protein translocation in biosynthesis: Bridging lengthscales and timescales in molecular simulation
  35. Three Dimensional Models for Martensitic Phase Transformations
  36. Molecular Simulations of the Release of Phosphate and ADP from F1-ATPase to Aid in the Understanding of the Function of F1-ATPase
  37. Turbulence over Complex Terrain: A Wind Energy Perspective
  38. Performance Enhancements for Three-Dimensional Fast Fourier Transforms Library P3DFFT
  39. Accelerated Materials Design Towards the Materials Genome
  40. Triple Photoionization of the Li atom
  41. Implementation of C-MAD Parallel Code to Include New Physics and Capabilities for Future Particle Colliders
  42. Morphology of Young Core-Collapse Supernova Remnants from Multi-Physics Three-Dimensional Simulations
  43. Large High-Resolution Galaxy Simulation Program
  44. Towards High Performance Urban Canopy Flows
  45. Evaluating PGAS scientific graph analysis codes on the Gemini interconnect
  46. Representing Convective Clouds in Global Circulation Models
  47. Simulation of Inelastic Decoherence in Electronic Transport Through Nanoscale Structures
  48. Improving Scalability of an Eigensolver for the Kohn-Sham Electronic Structure Problem
  49. Phonon, thermodynamic and diffusion properties of lithium-ion batteries from first-principles calculations
  50. CACHE novel architecture research
  51. High performance simulation of reactive transport processes at the pore scale
  52. First-Principles Calculations of Multiferroic Oxides
  53. High resolution integration of CAM5 for extreme weather research
  54. Modeling and Simulation of High Dimensional Stochastic Multiscale PDE Systems at the Exascale
  55. Theoretical Investigation on the Properties of Energy Materials
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