Wind turbine wakes and helicopter operations: An overview of the Garteur HC-AG23 activities

The effects of a wind turbine wake on General Aviation and the behaviour of helicopters in the tip vortex of large fixed-wing aircraft has been topic of research in the past years, but less is known about the interactions of helicopters operating in a wind turbine wake. A dedicated GARTEUR Action Group, HC-AG23, consisting of European...

Parallelisation of CFD methods for multi-physics problems

The focus of this paper is on the parallel computing aspects of multi-physics CFD methods and the implications for the design of a CFD framework encompassing mesh-based and particle-based approaches. In the first part of the paper, the shared-memory parallelisation of a multi-block, structured CFD is described and the parallel performance of...