An opinionated guide for new AMR-Wind users, by Alex Rybchuk. After going through this guide, you should be able to run an LES simulation of a small wind farm in a weakly convective atmospheric boundary layer.
I'm initially putting together this repo as supporting material for an AMR-Wind crash course on July 4th, 2023 at TU Delft. The documentation here reflects my personal experience of using AMR-Wind, and while my guidance largely follows the official documentation, I'll also talk about different hacky things that don't represent "best practice".
With this in mind, it may be helpful to give context on how I use AMR-Wind. To date, I've largely used AMR-Wind for simulations of a single turbine as part of the RAAW field campaign as well as simulations of ~50 turbines as part of the AWAKEN field campaign. I've focused more-so on the atmosphere than on any turbines. I don't have experience with blade-resolved simulations or farm control, but this guide should be helpful if you are interested in those topics.
If something in this tutorial doesn't work, please post to the issues board on this repo. If you have broader questions about AMR-Wind, please post to the issues board there.