My friend Mike is a wind energy engineer with some clever ideas for algorithms to improve wind farm planning. He wanted an interface to run his algorithms and visualize the results.

Veer Earth allows wind farm builders to upload turbine power data and generate wind simulations on a supercomputer cluster. The results are generated over several hours and are displayed in an attractive, map-focused UI.

Veer Earth ERA 5 public data set Veer Earth ERA 5 public data set

I built the interface and designed the following workflow to generate the simulations:

  • A user uploads turbine power data to their account.
  • The user builds up the wind farm they would like to simulate using turbines, our map interface, and a few other tools.
  • The simulation data is queued for generation.
  • An AWS ParallelCluster job is launched to run the simulation.
  • The results are pre-processed and uploaded to Mapbox Tile Servers for rendering.
  • The user can view the results on the map and download their data.

Veer Earth simulation interface Veer Earth simulation design interface

I always love working with maps, so this was a fun project. And the end result is a slick, intuitive interface that is even fun to use.

Veer Earth simulation results Veer Earth simulation results with downloadable data sets