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Research Interests Fluid Mechanics | Atmospheric sciences | Turbulence | Atmospheric Boundary Layer | Wind Farm atmosphere interaction | Structural analysis in Wind turbines | Large Eddy Simulations | Aerodynamics of airfoils | Hydrology Biography
My home town is Barcelona (Spain) where I got a Mechanical Engineering degree and a Master in Industrial Engineering together with a specialization in Civil Engeenering. Later, I had the opportunity to join as an associate professor at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya. Currently I am doing the PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah. And with all of this, a little bit of philosophy shouldn’t be bad… Why Your Life Is Not A Journey Contact informations University of Utah, Department of Mechanical Engineering Office: Building 60, room 260 Publications
Cortina, G. Calaf, M. (2017) Evolution of the mean kinetic energy through finite-sized wind farms and influence of turbine arrangement: power output predictor model (Submitted).
Feliciano, J. Cortina, G. Spear, A. Calaf, M. (2017) Study of the maximum displacement of the NREL 5MW wind turbine tower during diurnal aerodynamic loading conditions and development of a new generalized deflection model (Submitted). Sharma, V. Cortina, G. Margairaz, F. Parlange, M. B. Calaf, M. (2017). Evolution of flow characteristics through finite-sized wind farms and influence of turbine arrangement (Submitted).
Cortina, G. Karkera, Y. Ibarra, L. Calaf, M. (2017) Evaluation of Taller Wind Turbine Towers under different Atmospheric Stratification Conditions (Submitted). Naseem Ali, Nicholas Hamilton, Gerard Cortina, Marc Calaf and Raul Bayoan Cal (2017). Turbulence Characteristics of a Thermally Stratified Wind Turbine Array Boundary Layer: Anisotropy Stress Invariants (Submitted). Naseem Ali, Gerard Cortina, Marc Calaf and Raul Bayoan Cal (2017). Turbulence Characteristics of a Thermally Strati field Wind Turbine Array Boundary Layer: Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (Accepted). Journal of Fluid Mechanics. Cortina, G. Sharma, V. Calaf, M. (2017). Wind Farm Density and Harvested Power in Very Large Wind Farms: a Low-Order Model. Physics Review of Fluids. Cortina, G. Calaf, M. (2016). Turbulence upstream of wind turbines: a large-eddy simulation approach to investigate the use of wind Lidars. Renewable energy. Cortina, G. Calaf, M. Cal, R. (2016). Distribution of mean kinetic energy around a single wind turbine and a characteristic wind turbine of a very large wind farm. Physics Review of Fluids. Cortina, G. Sharma, V. Calaf, M. (2016). Investigation of the incoming wind vector for improved wind turbine yaw-adjustment under different atmospheric and wind farm conditions. Renewable energy.
Conferences
Mean Kinetic Energy Fluxes within Wind Farms through a Diurnal Cycle (2016)
G. Cortina, V. Sharma, M. Calaf
22nd Symp. Boundary Layers and Turbulence (AMS)
Mean Kinetic Energy Fluxes within Wind Farms through a Diurnal Cycle (2016)
G. Cortina, V. Sharma, M. Calaf
Windfarms 2016
Flow adjustment in a finite size wind farm in a neutral ABL – an LES study (2016)
M. Calaf, G. Cortina, V. Sharma
Windfarms 2016
Turbulence analysis upstream of a wind turbine: an LES approach to improve wind LIDAR technology (2015)
G. Cortina, V. Sharma, M. Calaf
Windfarms 2015
Wind Turbine Box, the flow around a characteristic wind turbine (2015)
M. Calaf, G. Cortina, Y. Dinkar, V. Sharma
Windfarms 2015
Wind Turbine Box-energy fluxes around a characteristic wind turbine (2015) M. Calaf, G. Cortina, V. Sharma
Bulletin of the American Physical Society 60
Scanning of wind turbine upwind conditions: numerical algorithm and first applications (2014) M. Calaf, G. Cortina, V. Sharma, M.B. Parlange
Bulletin of the American Physical Society 59
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