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Slide 1

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 2

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 3

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 4

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 5

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 6

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 7

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 8

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 9

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 10

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 11

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 12

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 13

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 14

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 15

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 16

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 17

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 18

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 19

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 20

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 21

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 22

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 23

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 24

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 25

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 26

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 27

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 28

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 29

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 30

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 31

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 32

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 33

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 34

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 35

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 36

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 37

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 38

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR


Slide 39

fluidyn - PANEOLE
- for the evaluation of Wind Energy Density of a potential site

PANEOLE

INTRODUCTION

PANEOLE

About PANEOLE …..
 A unique 3D fluid dynamics based software available for wind
power potential prediction.
 Reliable and high precision tool capable of generating wind field
atlas for the wind turbines siting
 Wind field modeling is done by solving Navier-Stokes equations
 Control-volume or integral-balance approach to construct the finite
difference approximations for each of these control volumes to preserve
local conservation of differenced quantities

 Main application Area : This software could be used for siting of
turbines and prediction of power generation capacities at windy sites

PANEOLE

APPLICATION AREA

PANEOLE

Application Areas:
 Establish wind energy density atlas over the potential site
 Siting of Turbines and prediction of power generation capacities

The support for PANEOLE development is through …
 ADEME
 French ministry of environment agency
 EED (Espace Eolien Developpement)

PANEOLE

PANEOLE FEATURES

PANEOLE

SALIENT FEATURES ….
 Roughness curves and altitude curves can be imported through map
files
 Mass consistent wind field model with Lagrangian multiplier technique
and weighted interpolation schemes for one or more meteorological
stations
 According to the user specification, Cartesian or BFC grid generation
techniques can be used for mesh generation
 The influence of obstacles like buildings, hillocks on the wind pattern
are considered
 Turbulence models can be incorporated by selecting among the k-diff,
k-l or k-eps models
 Energy density with respect to the prevailing wind over the whole
domain is calculated
 Bar graphs show the power productions for the specified periods
PANEOLE

Comparison between cartesian and curvilinear grid
Cartesian uniform

Terrain

Curvilinear non-uniform

GRID

Modeled Terrain

The Cartesian grid transforms the slopes into steps which can cause turbulence.
PANEOLE

Example of Epinay-sur-Seine

Wind strongly disturbed by population centres(Urban area)

PANEOLE

Example of Southwark (UK)

Representation of turbulence in the vertical plane

PANEOLE

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
& INPUTS REQUIRED

PANEOLE

fluidyn-PANEOLE
INPUTS

SOLVER

OUTPUTS

Digitisation of
Topography

Grid

Velocity vectors

Meteorological data
processing

Atlas of wind speed
and wind power
density

Establishing the
Windfield

Annual energy
production of wind
turbines

Characteristics of
turbines

Meteorological
Data

PANEOLE

PANEOLE Menu Structure

Pre-Processor Options

Post-Processor Options

Processor (Simulation) Options

PANEOLE

File Handling Options

Option to load Bitmap in the background
Options to import Map Files

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Location Details and Study Domain

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Digitizing the topography

List of Topographical Objects

Operations on the objects

Setting the Scale

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data

Key-in and Hourly Meteo Data

PANEOLE

Meteorological Data: Time Series and Windrose

Time Series
Data file
Windrose Frequency
Table File

Operations on Meteo Stations

PANEOLE

Model Setup: Selecting the Simulation Options

PANEOLE

Post Processing Features
Velocity Vectors

Body Fitted Mesh

Velocity Vectors in
vertical sections

WPD Contours

Power Production

PANEOLE

Output Options
Menu options for ‘Output’

The Menu Options under ‘Output’ are:
 To create ‘Annotations’ for the view plots using the annotation elements
available like Line, Arrow, Polygon, Box, circle and also to write ‘Text’.
 To ‘Save’ the files loaded/created in the various formats that are available
like ‘Bitmap’, ‘HPGL’, ‘Postscript’, ‘PCL’ etc.
 To make ‘Animation’ sequences with the saved Bitmap images.

PANEPR

REAL CASE STUDIES

Ludres
Jogimatti

PANEOLE

CASE-1: LUDRES
(Simulation carried out for the predominant wind direction)

PANEOLE

Case Description:
• Objective is to identify the zones of the significant winds in order to locate
the wind turbines
• To establish the windfield over the computational domain for the
predominant wind speed and direction
• The complexity of the terrain such as undulations, vegetation, water bodies
are taken into account

PANEOLE

Input Data:


Bitmap in the background has been used to digitize the topograhy



The topographical features being considered are:
- Altitude contours
- Vegetation



Windfield was established using Predominant windspeed and direction

PANEOLE

Background map used to build Terrain Model
N

Vent dominant 250°N

Ludres

PANEOLE

Ludres: Terrain undulations and Body fitted Mesh

420m

250m

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 3 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Zone of strongest wind at a
height of 12 meters above the
ground

PANEOLE

Wind velocity vectors at a plane 12 m above the ground

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

CASE-2: JOGIMATTI

PANEOLE

Case Description:


To evaluate the wind power density of a potential site

• Estimation of annual power production by the turbines placed at the
predetermined locations

PANEOLE

Topography built on the Background map

PANEOLE

Digitized topography and location of Turbines

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

PANEOLE

Back to
Case Studies

PANEOLE

TRANSOFT team
Supplying tomorrow’s advanced
technology at today’s prices
7 boulevard de la Libération
93200 SAINT-DENIS
FRANCE
 : 33 01 42 43 16 66
 : 33 01 42 43 50 33
e-mail : [email protected]

1191 Crestmont Drive
LAFAYETTE CA 94549 - 3004
USA
 : 1 925 284 1200
 : 1 925 284 1240
e-mail :
[email protected]

15/17, Belwell Lane
Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B7 44AA UNITED
KINGDOM
 : 44 0 1 213 088 168
 : 44 0 1 213 232 009
e-mail : [email protected]

146, Ring Road,
Sector 5, H.S.R LAYOUT
BANGALORE 5600 34
INDIA
 : 91 80 5503498
 : 91 80 5501964
e-mail :
[email protected]
PANEPR