Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10609/44882
Title: Modeling and distributed computing of snow transport and delivery on meso-scale in a complex orography
Author: Ward Koeck, Alan
Director: Jorba, Josep  
Others: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3)
Abstract: The study describes the working principles and validation of a Computational Fluid Dynamics computer model of snowfall over a complex orography, for optimizing ski slope or other installations according to local weather patterns. The spatial domain is discretized, focusing on challenging topography that tends to produce deformed mesh volumes. A novel measure od mesh deformation is defined and applied to discuss different strategies of mesh optimization with the goal of facilitating parallel computer solutions of the Navier-Stokes fluid transport equations. A computer model is designed to solve the Navier-Stokes incompressible turbulent fluid equations. The efficiency of the CFD computational toolkit is discussed. The degree od coupling required between the snow ¿ and air-phases of the fluid during the computer modeling of snowfall is discussed. A two-fluid (Euler-Lagrangian) methodology is implemented. Applications of such snowfall models are discussed in relation to ski-slope planning and high-altitude road snow clearing. An application of the model to wind energy production planning is presented.
Keywords: fluyd dinamics
snowfall
computer model
installation planning
ski-slope
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
Issue Date: 14-Sep-2015
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/  
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