MechE Colloquium: Considering mean and turbulence kinetic energy transport on stratified wind plant boundary layers
Event details
| Date | 19.02.2019 |
| Hour | 12:15 › 13:15 |
| Speaker | Prof. Raúl Bayoán Cal, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Portland State University |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Abstract:
Experiments and numerical studies have demonstrated that the power extracted by the wind plant is directly and proportionately related to the transport of mean kinetic energy - here the parting point. This is intimately tied with the balance of turbulence kinetic energy. These relations are shown through wind tunnel experiments and large eddy simulations where various terms are considered with the aim of identifying leading terms and their role in the dynamics of such wind plants.
Bio:
Raúl Bayoán Cal is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Portland State University; a faculty member since 2010. He is currently a Fulbright Scholar at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon. Received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2006. During 2006 to 2009, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University. His area of research is focused on understanding turbulence with emphasis placed on physics related of wall-bounded, free-shear and multi-phase flows as well as renewable energy.
Experiments and numerical studies have demonstrated that the power extracted by the wind plant is directly and proportionately related to the transport of mean kinetic energy - here the parting point. This is intimately tied with the balance of turbulence kinetic energy. These relations are shown through wind tunnel experiments and large eddy simulations where various terms are considered with the aim of identifying leading terms and their role in the dynamics of such wind plants.
Bio:
Raúl Bayoán Cal is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Portland State University; a faculty member since 2010. He is currently a Fulbright Scholar at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon. Received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2006. During 2006 to 2009, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University. His area of research is focused on understanding turbulence with emphasis placed on physics related of wall-bounded, free-shear and multi-phase flows as well as renewable energy.
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