Focus Session: Wind Energy Fluid Dynamics I

Presentations

• Computational and Experimental Studies of Turbulence in Wind and Hydrokinetic Energy: From Turbines to Farms

  ORAL

  Nov. 20, 2011, 8:00 AM – Nov. 20, 2011, 8:13 AM

  Authors

  • Fotis Sotiropoulos

    • St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota
    • University of Minnesota
    • Univ. of Minnesota
    • Dept of Civil Engineering, UMN
    • St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, 2 Third Avenue SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414, USA

  • Seokkoo Kang

    • St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota

  • Xiaolei Yang

    • St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota

  • Leonardo Chamorro

    • St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota

  • Craig Hill

    • St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota

  • Roger Arndt

    • St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota

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• Panel method for the wake effects on the aerodynamics of vertical-axis wind turbines

  ORAL

  Nov. 20, 2011, 8:13 AM – Nov. 20, 2011, 8:26 AM

  Authors

  • Udit Goyal

    • Graduate Student

  • Dietmar Rempfer

    • Associate Professor

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• Fluid-Structure Interaction Modeling of Horizontal- and Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines

  ORAL

  Nov. 20, 2011, 8:26 AM – Nov. 20, 2011, 8:39 AM

  Authors

  • Yuri Bazilevs

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• Quantitative Full-Scale Wind Turbine Flow Measurements

  ORAL

  Nov. 20, 2011, 8:39 AM – Nov. 20, 2011, 8:52 AM

  Authors

  • Matthias Kinzel

    • California Institute of Technology
    • Caltech

  • Quinn Mulligan

    • Caltech

  • John Dabiri

    • California Institute of Technology
    • Caltech

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• Novel Diagnostics to Investigate Turbine-Turbine Interactions

  ORAL

  Nov. 20, 2011, 8:52 AM – Nov. 20, 2011, 9:05 AM

  Authors

  • B.J. Balakumar

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • S. Pol

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

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• Large Field of View Particle-Image Velocimetry (LF-PIV): Design and Performance

  ORAL

  Nov. 20, 2011, 9:05 AM – Nov. 20, 2011, 9:18 AM

  Authors

  • S. Pol

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • John Hoffman

  • B.J. Balakumar

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

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• Investigation on wind turbine wakes: wind tunnel tests and field experiments with LIDARs

  ORAL

  Nov. 20, 2011, 9:18 AM – Nov. 20, 2011, 9:31 AM

  Authors

  • Ting Wu

  • Juliette C\"oeff\'e

  • Giacomo Valerio Iungo

    • Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
    • EPFL

  • Fernando Port\'e-Agel

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• Experimental study of the kinetic energy budget of a wind turbine stream-tube

  ORAL

  Nov. 20, 2011, 9:31 AM – Nov. 20, 2011, 9:44 AM

  Authors

  • Jose Lebron

    • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  • Luciano Castillo

    • Texas Tech University

  • Charles Meneveau

    • JHU
    • Mechanical Engineering and CEAFM, Johns Hopkins University
    • Johns Hopkins University, USA
    • Johns Hopkins University
    • Mechanical Engineering \& CEAFM, Johns Hopkins University
    • Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
    • Mechanical Eng. \& CEAFM, Johns Hopkins University
    • The Johns Hopkins University

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• Interaction of an Artificially Thickened Boundary Layer with a Vertically Mounted Pitching Airfoil

  ORAL

  Nov. 20, 2011, 9:44 AM – Nov. 20, 2011, 9:57 AM

  Authors

  • Tristen Hohman

    • Princeton University

  • Alexander Smits

    • Princeton University

  • Luigi Martinelli

    • Princeton University

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• Effect of Free-stream Turbulence on Flow Separation in S809 Wind Turbine Blade

  ORAL

  Nov. 20, 2011, 9:57 AM – Nov. 20, 2011, 10:10 AM

  Authors

  • Sheilla Torres-Nieves

    • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  • Victor Maldonado

    • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  • Charles Meneveau

    • JHU
    • Mechanical Engineering and CEAFM, Johns Hopkins University
    • Johns Hopkins University, USA
    • Johns Hopkins University
    • Mechanical Engineering \& CEAFM, Johns Hopkins University
    • Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
    • Mechanical Eng. \& CEAFM, Johns Hopkins University
    • The Johns Hopkins University

  • Luciano Castillo

    • Texas Tech University

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