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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 undergraduate, I worked with Engineers for a Sustainable World in small-scale wind energy projects that combined my interests in sustainable development and technical […]

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Jeppesen Feliciano

Under Graduate Student Research Interests Fluid mechanics | Aerodynamics | Structural analysis in Wind turbines| Aeroelasticity | Flow control Biography I am a Utah native, compete with the Utah Club Swim Team, and study mechanical engineering. I am working on structural analysis of wind turbines with the […]

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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 Salt Lake City, UT, and he served in the United States Air Force for 6 years. He received a B.S. in Physics and a B.S. in […]

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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 not evolved much. Wind vane and cup anemometers, installed at the turbines nacelle, right behind the blades, are still used. This […]

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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 remains the same – i.e. using traditional wind vanes and cup anemometers installed at the turbine’s nacelle, right behind the blades. As a […]

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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 wind turbine illustrates the dominant components of the mean kinetic energy budget as well as their corresponding spatial distribution.

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Why Your Life Is Not A Journey

The existence, the physical universe is basically playful. There is no necessity for it whatsoever. Is isn’t going anywhere… that is to say, it doesn’t have some destination that it ought to arrive at. But it is best understood with analogy with music. Because music, as an […]

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WINDFARMS 2016

During the following days, 23-25 May of 2016, the Wind Energy & Turbulence group will be presenting the latest research results in the Winndfarms 2016 conference series, that will take place in Dallas (Texas). Windfarms 2016 is an international colloquium on large wind-power plants: Interaction, Control and Integration. […]

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Travis Morrison

Ph.D. Student Research Interests Fluid Mechanics | Atmospheric sciences | Turbulence | Atmospheric Boundary Layer | Large Eddy Simulations |   Biography I come from Hoffman Estates Illinois, approximately 30 miles Northwest of Chicago. I attended North Central College in Naperville, Illinois, where I received a Bachelor […]

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68th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics

WET will be attending the upcoming American Physical Society 68th Annual DFD Meeting that will take place in Boston (Massachusetts) on November 22-24 of 2015. Meeting Website: https://apsdfd2015.mit.edu/

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