Research interests
• Atmospheric Boundary-Layer turbulence
• Wind Energy
• Land-Atmosphere interactions
• Large-Eddy Simulations
• Thermally stratified flows
Contact Us
Marc Calaf
Assistant Professor
Contact informations
Office: 2547 MEK
E-mail: marc.calaf@utah.edu
Phone: (801) 587-3253
Recent Activity
Meet Brooke Stanislawski: New member of the WET lab
Masters Student Biography Born in Southern California, I moved to Evanston, IL to attend Northwestern University for a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. As an[...]
New member joins the WET lab: more about Byron Eng
Byron is a Master Student that just joined us in order to develop some amazing research in our group. Byron grew up in [...]
New article: Turbulence upstream of wind turbines: A large-eddy simulation approach to investigate the use of wind lidars
Journal of Renewable Energy G. Cortina and M. Calaf Abstract Despite the evolution of wind turbines, the way in which in-situ meteorological information is obtained has [...]
New article: Investigation of the incoming wind vector for improved wind turbine yaw-adjustment under different atmospheric and wind farm conditions
Journal of Renewable Energy G. Cortina ,V. Sharma, M. Calaf Regardless of the evolution of wind energy harvesting, the way in which turbines obtain in-situ meteorological information re[...]
New Article: Distribution of mean kinetic energy around an isolated wind turbine and a characteristic wind turbine of a very large wind farm
Gerard Cortina, Marc Calaf, and Raúl Bayoán Cal Phys. Rev. Fluids 1, 074402 (2016) A detailed control volume analysis of the flow around a w[...]