Section: SyntheticTurbulence

This section is for setting turbulence injection parameters.

SynthTurb.turbulence_file

type: String, required

Name of the netcdf file that contains the data.

SynthTurb.wind_direction

type: Real, optional, default = 270.

The wind direction.

SynthTurb.grid_location

type: List of Reals, required

Location of the middle of the turbulence box in meters.

SynthTurb.mean_wind_type

type: String, required

The type of profile to use. Options are ConstValue, LinearProfile, and PowerLawProfile.

The following inputs are used only for PowerLawProfile.

SynthTurb.zref

type: Real, required

The default reference height at the center of the turbulence grid.

SynthTurb.shear_exponent

type: Real, required

The shear exponent value.

SynthTurb.uref

type: Real list, required

The reference value of the velocity vector used to propagate the plane.

SynthTurb.zoffset

type: Real, optional, default =

The offset in the z direction between the turbulence box and the simulation.

SynthTurb.umin

type: Real, required

The minimum velocity cutoff in the mean power law profile.

SynthTurb.umax

type: Real, required

The maximum velocity cutoff in the mean power law profile.

SynthTurb.gauss_smearing_factor

type: Real, required

The length scale of the Gaussian kernel used to smear the forces. A value of 2 times the grid spacing is recommended.

SynthTurb.time_offset

type: Real, optional, default = 0.0

The time offset between the data and the simulation.