Environmental Data: Drifting and blowing snow distribution around stru...

Keywords:
ALPINE
PHOTOVOLTAIC
PREFERENTIAL DEPOSITION
RENEWABLE ENERGY
SNOW TRANSPORT

Description

This dataset groups numerical simulation outputs and validation measurement data produced in the context of the following [publication]: _not published yet...

Citation

Hames, O., Frischholz, Y., Lehning, M. (2025). Drifting and blowing snow distribution around structures for Alpine PV applications. EnviDat. https://www.doi.org/10.16904/envidat.589.

Resources

  • simulations.zip

    This file contains the snowBedFoam simulations carried out to produce the results presented in: _article not published yet_. ## Content ### 1. /simulations Groups all simulations folders organised by parameter (azimuth, groupsize, height, interspace) and by type of experiment (single_ref, group_ref). ### 2. /simulations/[parameter]/ For each parameter multiple simulations were carried out. Each simulation folder follows the same naming systematic: `helioplant_n#_h#_ARL#_BL#_az#_windDir#` - n: number of Helioplant units - h: height-above-surface - sp: regular distance between the units - ARL: additional refinement level - BL: boundary layer first cell height - windDir: wind direction - stag: staggered arangement (suffix) Here is an example of a folder content for a specific parameter (simulations/azimuth/): - `helioplant_n9_h07_sp10_ARL45_BL0015_az30_windDir5`: following the naming systematic this folder corresponds to a simulation with 9 aligned Helioplant units with 0.7m of height-above-surface, an inter-unit distance of 10m an azimuth of 30° and a wind direction of 5°. ### 3. /simulations/[parameter]/[helioplant_n#_h#_ARL#_BL#_az#_windDir#] Each simulation folder contains multiple sub-folders (0/, 100/, 300/, constant/ etc.) and files that define the experiment. For each simulation, the files used in the processing [scripts] are the following: - 0/Cx: contains the x coordinates of sampling grid cells and of the Helioplants structures. - 0/Cy: contains the y coordinates of sampling grid cells and of the Helioplants structures. - 300/kinematicCloud-massCheckPatterns: contains the snow mass distribution values [kg/m2] for each grid cell. [scripts]: https://github.com/frischwood/snowbed-helio.git

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