Session 15A Renewable energy applications of boundary layer physics

Thursday, 12 June 2014: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Queens Ballroom (Queens Hotel)
Host: 21st Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence
Chair:
Jeffrey D. Mirocha, LLNL, Livermore, CA

Papers:
10:30 AM
15A.1
10:45 AM
15A.2
Non-equilibrium winds/waves: Impact of wave-propagation direction and wave age on hub-height winds and turbulence
Edward (Ned) Garrett Patton, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. P. Sullivan, B. Kosovic, L. Mahrt, M. Zagar, J. Dudhia, and L. Gulstad

11:00 AM
15A.3
Scanning of wind turbine upwind conditions: numerical algorithm and first applications
Marc Calaf, University of Utah, Wind Energy and Turbulence Laboratory, Salt Lake City, UT; and V. Sharma, G. Cortina, and M. B. Parlange

11:30 AM
15A.5
A METHODOLOGY FOR MAPPING THE EXCESS ENERGY AVAILABLE TO BUILDING MOUNTED TURBINES THROUGH GUST TRACKING SOLUTIONS
Francis C. Emejeamara, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom; and A. S. Tomlin and J. T. Millward-Hopkins

11:45 AM
15A.6
The Development of Synthetic Wind Series Based on Gaussian and Non Gaussian Statistics
Thomas Woolmington, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin 8, Ireland; and K. Sunderland and J. Blackledge

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