NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF WIND TURBINE WAKES FOR MULTI-SCALE GEOPHYSICAL APPLICATIONS
Lecture
Thursday, December 5, at at 14:15 - Classroom L.15 - Building B12 -Politecnico di Milano - Campus Bovisa - Via La Masa, 34 - 20156 - Milano (MI)
Cristina L. Archer, Professor in the Departments of Geography and Spatial Sciences and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware, has been at the cutting edge of wind energy research since 2003.
Her work spans several areas, including wind turbine wakes, wind resource assessment, climate impacts of large-scale wind turbine deployment, offshore wind grid integration and computational fluid dynamics for wind energy applications.
A strong supporter of the Airborne Wind Energy (AWE) community since 2009, Cristina organized the very first AWE conference in Chico, California, establishing her position as a pioneer in this field.
In this lecture, Cristina will explore the state-of-the-art in numerical simulations of wind turbine wakes, with a focus on multi-scale geophysical applications.
She will also share key insights into the history and development of AWE systems, drawing from her extensive expertise and leadership in the field.
Speaker:
Cristina L. Archer is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences and in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware. Her areas of research range from the geophysical fluid dynamics and meteorology to wind power, climate change and air pollution numerical modelling and she is now the Director of the Center for Research in Wind (CReW), which focuses on wind energy, in particular offshore, and its integration in the electric grid. Cristina has been conducting research on wind energy since 2003 and has written over 50 peer-reviewed articles on wind turbine wakes, wind resource assessment, climate consequences of large deployment of wind turbines, grid integration of offshore wind, computational fluid dynamics for wind energy. She has been a supporter of airborne wind energy since 2009, when she organized the very first airborne wind energy conference in Chico, California, although at that time it was called "high-altitude wind power" or HAWP.
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