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| Monday, Oct. 30, 2023 | Tues, Oct. 31, 2023 | Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023 | |
| Registration | Registration | ||
| Speakers | Welcome and Keynote | Plenary Session: Mid-Term Challenges | Plenary Session: Long-Term Challenges |
| BREAK | Coffee Break | ||
| Morning Sessions | Plenary Session: Near-Term Challenges | Technical Tracks | Technical Tracks |
| LUNCH |
Lunch |
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| Early Afternoon Sessions | Technical Tracks | Technical Tracks | Technical Tracks |
| BREAK | Coffee Break | ||
| Late Afternoon Sessions | Technical Tracks | Technical Tracks | Technical Tracks |
| Wrap Up | Day 1 Summary Roundtables | Day 2 Summary Roundtables | Awards Ceremony and Day 3 Summary Roundtables |
| EVENING EVENTS | Poster Session and Reception (5:30–7:00 p.m.) |
All Hallows’ Eve Banquet (Costumes Encouraged!) (5:30–9:00 p.m.) |
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Detailed Program by Day
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| 8:00–8:45 a.m. | Registration | |||||
| 8:45–10:00 a.m. | Welcome and Keynote Room: Ballroom A+B |
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| 10:00–10:15 a.m. | Coffee Break | |||||
| 10:15 a.m.–11:45 p.m. |
Plenary Session: Near-Term Challenges Moderator: Kelsey Shaler, Shell |
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| 11:45 a.m.–1:00 p.m. | Lunch | |||||
| 1:00–3:00 p.m. | Early Afternoon Sessions | Practical Applications of Environmental and Social Science in Renewable Energy Plant Design Room: Ballroom A+B Chair: PJ Stanley |
Extreme Weather Room: Ballroom C Chair: Brian Hirth |
Modeling Approaches and Tools for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines Room: Ballroom D Chair: Jason Jonkman |
Wind Energy Operations Optimization I Room: Ponderosa Chair: Jon Keller |
Rotor Design and Manufacturing Room: Pine Chair: Scott Johnson |
| 1:00–1:20 p.m. | Caitlyn Clark, Energy Clusters Offshore: Feasibility and Design Review | Matthew Churchfield, Mesoscale-Microscale Coupling for Hurricane Flows | Onur Bilgen, OpenTurbineCoDe (OTCD): An Open-Source Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Multidisciplinary Control Co-Design Optimization Framework | Sebastian Wandel, Wear Prevention in Rotor Blade Bearings | Adam Cardoza, Unsteady Aero-Structural Blade Optimization with Analytic Gradients | |
| 1:20–1:40 p.m. | Alison Bates, Attitudes towards Floating Wind Turbines: Insights from Coastal Communities in France and the United States | Georgios Deskos, Comparison between the IEC steady and turbulent extreme wind models for ultimate strength analysis of Typhoon T class wind turbines | Serag-Eldin Abdelmoteleb, Evaluating Different Approaches for Modelling Rotor Aero-servo-dynamics in Frequency-Domain Analysis of Floating Wind Turbines | Gernot Bayer, Fundamental Experimental Investigations on Lubrication and Wear in Pitch Bearings | Brent Houchens, Facilitation of Integrated Technologies for Wind Turbine Blade Tips by 3D Printing | |
| 1:40–2:00 p.m. | Cris Hein, A Transdisciplinary Approach to Resolving Wind Energy and Environmental Interactions | Hui Hu, An Experimental Investigation on the Detrimental Effects of Ice Accretion on the Aerodynamic Performance of Offshore Wind Turbines | Onur Bilgen, Structural Modeling of a Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Blade | Francesco Castellani, Long to short term analysis of a wind turbine gearbox incipient fault through a multi-scale data-driven approach |
Cory Frontin, Design space exploration for novel reduced-vortex turbine rotors using free wake vortex methods | |
| 2:00–2:20 p.m. | Chloe Constant, Community Considerations Related to Wind Energy Recycling and End of Service | Linyue Gao, Wind Farm Icing Loss Forecast Pertinent to Winter Extremes | Lucas Carmo, Slender-body approach for computing second-order wave loads in RAFT | Julian Quick, Main Bearing Fatigue Life Under the Influence of Wind Turbine Wakes | Hunter Huth, Automated Post-Mold Operations for Wind Blade Manufacturing | |
| 2:20–2:40 p.m. | Jay Diffendorfer, Developing a multidisciplinary analytical framework that offers means to weigh trade-offs when exploring future wind energy built out and bat population interactions | Miguel Sanchez Gomez, Wind fields in low- and mid-intensity tropical cyclones are not fully represented in turbine design standards | Matthew Hall, Toward an Integrated Floating Wind Array Design Toolset | Latha Sethuraman, Multiphysics and multimaterial optimization for minimizing rare-earth materials in a wind turbine generator by 3D printing | Sherif A. Khalifa, Environmental Benefits and Burdens of using Thermoset and Thermoplastic Resin Systems in Wind Turbine Blade Manufacturing: A Life Cycle Comparison of Recycling Pathways | |
| 2:40–3:00 p.m. | Jiali Wang, Offshore hurricane rotor layer wind dependence on air-sea coupling and model uncertainty in mesoscale simulations | Lindsay Sheridan, Offshore Wind Resource Assessment and Model Validation off the Coast of Hawaii | Jelle Bosmans, Experimental validation of virtual torque sensing for wind turbine gearboxes based on strain measurements | Ernesto Camarena, Aeroelastic effects of adhesive bond lines: blade torsion and shear | ||
| 3:00–3:20 p.m. | Break | |||||
| 3:20–4:40 p.m. | Late Afternoon Sessions | Large Wind Plant Simulations Room: Pine Chair: Lawrence Cheung |
Field Measurement Techniques Room: Ballroom A+B Chair: Tommy Herges |
Advanced Atmospheric Modeling Approaches Room: Ballroom D Chair: Caroline Draxl |
Rotor Aerodynamics and Aeroelasticity - Applications Room: Ponderosa Chair: Chris Kelley |
Data-driven Modeling: Wakes, Farms, and Power Prediction Room: Ballroom C Chair: Kelsey Shaler |
| 3:20–3:40 p.m. | David Rosencrans, Modeling Between-Plant Wake Impacts in the Southern Great Plains | Tommy Herges, Spectral Broadening Development of Simulated Lidar | Mehtab Khan, Recommendations on Accurate and Systematic Numerical Simulation of Wind-Farm Induced Atmospheric Gravity Waves | Jarred Kenworthy, Nonsteady Load Responses on the Main Shaft by the Passage of Daytime Atmospheric Turbulence Eddies through the Rotor of Utility-scale Wind Turbines | Ashish Sedai, Wind Turbine Power Curve Calibration with Machine Learning Models | |
| 3:40–4:00 p.m. | William Radünz, WRF-LES-GAD simulation of the King Plains wind farm for AWAKEN during a low-level jet episode | Emina Maric, Acoustic Travel-Time Tomography for Wind Energy | Ziwen Wang, Lattice Boltzmann method applied in wind farm wake study considering the wave effect on marine atmospheric boundary layer | Dan Houck, SpinnerLidar Data Assimilation Methods for Improved Inflow Modeling and Wind Turbine Loads Predictions | Stijn Ally, Modular deep learning approach for wind farm power and wake loss forecasting | |
| 4:00–4:20 p.m. | Alan Hsieh, An Investigation of Wake Turbulence and Turbine Loading for the AWAKEN Wind Farms | Bradley Vandervoort, The Design and Evaluation of Pressure Gloves for Unsteady Pressure Measurements | Eliot Quon, The Energy Research and Forecasting Model: Initial Development and Validation | Derek Slaughter, Development of Software for Automatic Campbell Diagram Generation and Turbine Visualization based on OpenFAST | Coleman Moss, Generating General Data-Driven Wind Farm Models: Current Challenges and Potential Solutions | |
| 4:20–4:40 p.m. | Cristina Archer, An analytical model of turbulent kinetic energy added by wind turbines: Development and calibration | Stefano Letizia, Thermodynamic profiling of the atmospheric boundary layer in the AWAKEN project | Jiali Wang, Uncertainty Quantification of Wind Integration National Dataset Toolkit Long-Term Ensemble Dataset | Leonardo Pagamonci, A critical assessment of the impact of aeroelasticity on multi-megawatt wind turbine upscaling | Chi Qiao, A Machine-Learning-Based Side-By-Side Analysis for Evaluating Wind Turbine Energy Improvement | |
| 4:45–5:15 p.m. | Roundtable Discussion Rooms: Ballroom C, Ballroom D, Ponderosa, Pine |
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| 5:30–7:00 p.m. | Poster Session and Reception | |||||
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| 8:00–8:30 a.m. | Registration | |||||
| 8:30–10:00 a.m. |
Plenary Session: Mid-Term Challenges Moderator: Bonnie Ram, University of Delaware |
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| 10:00–10:20 a.m. | Coffee Break | |||||
| 10:20 a.m.–12:20 p.m. |
Morning Sessions |
Hybrids and Power-to-X Room: Ballroom C Chair: Chris Bay |
Wind Plant and Wake Control I Room: Ballroom A+B Chair: Eric Simley |
Rotor Aerodynamics and Aerolasticity - Modeling and Simulation Room: Ballroom D Chair: Jason Jonkman |
Advancing Community Understanding and Acceptance: Emerging Tools, Approaches, and Insights Room: Ponderosa Chair: Ben Hoen |
Turbine Structures, Loads, and Aerodynamics - Experiments and Analysis Room: Pine Chair: David Maniaci |
| 10:20–10:40 a.m. | Jared Thomas, Wind Turbine Design Optimization For Hydrogen Production | Manuel Zuniga, A wind tunnel investigation on the dynamic wake response due to dynamic induction control | Emmanuel Branlard, Improvements to the Blade Element Momentum formulation of OpenFAST for skewed and sheared inflows | Robi Nilson, Halfway Up the Ladder: Developer Perspectives on Community Engagement in Renewable Energy Development | Nasim Partovi Mehr, Structural Fatigue Analysis of a 6-MW Offshore Wind Turbine with Jacket Support Structure in Block Island Wind Farm | |
| 10:40–11:00 a.m. | Sarah Buckhold, Analyzing the Feasilibity of Using Stranded Wyoming Wind Resource for Green Hydrogen Production |
Emanuel Taschner, Assessing the potential of the helix wind farm control approach: Dependence on actuation frequency, atmospheric boundary layer conditions and level of wake overlap | Justin Porter, Modeling Stall-/Vortex-Induced Vibration with High Fidelity Aerodynamics for a 2D Cross Section | Elena Smith and Brinn McDowell, Levers to Bridge the Wind Workforce Gap | Victoria Ding, Assigning Fabrication Quality Classes to Wind Turbine Towers from Laser Scanned Data | |
| 11:00–11:20 a.m. | Nick Riccobono, Modeling Wind-Hydrogen Systems and Analyzing Wind Curtailment | Emma Sully, The Effect of Turbulence and Yaw Offset Limits on Modelled AEP Gains from Wake Steering | Abhratej Sahoo, Developing a fast aerodynamic analysis tool using Integral Boundary Layer methods for airfoils equipped with vortex generators | Nathaniel Trumbull, Investigating Community Acceptance of Offshore Wind's Landfall and Grid Interconnection Points in Southern New England | Dehui Lin, Investigation of the Influence of Geometric Imperfections on the Flexural Buckling Strength of Can-Welded Thin-Walled Steel Tubes | |
| 11:20–11:40 a.m. | Honglin Li, Economic Feasibility and Decarbonization Potential of Hybrid Wind and Hydrogen Systems in Texas | Regis Thedin, Wind farm load assessment subject to wake steering with negative yaw angles | Frederik Zahle, Free-form methodology for aero-elastically tailored blade design using 2D flow surrogates | Clara Houghteling, Understanding Wind Energy Equity: Findings from Stakeholder Engagement around Land-based Wind Energy Development | Sirko Bartholomay, Employing Trailing Edge Flaps for Extreme Load Control: The Extreme Coherent Gust with Direction Change as an Experimental Show Case | |
| 11:40 a.m.–12:00 p.m. | Jack Cimorelli, Wind Energy and Hydrogen Energy Storage System Modeling for Microgrids | Michael Sinner, Using the Empirical Gaussian Wake Model with SCADA Records | Jason Jonkman, Introduction of a Tight Coupling Algorithm in OpenFAST for Improved Computational Performance | Matilda Kreider, Benefit, Burden, Bribe: An Exploration of Community Benefit Agreements for Offshore and Land-Based Wind Energy | Pietro Bortolotti, How to Flip a GE1.5 Wind Turbine from Upwind to Downwind | |
| 12:00–12:20 p.m. | Shashank Yellapantula, Exploring derating strategies for wind turbine system load mitigation in coastal-low level jets | Ganesh Vijayakumar, Blade-resolved fluid structure interaction algorithms for wind energy applications | Bonnie Ram, Co-Design of Community Benefit Agreements for US-based Offshore Wind Projects: Approaches in Trust Building and Social Acceptability | (INVITED TALK FROM WEICan) Paige Gallant, Operational Aspects of Testing Advanced Lubricants in an Operating Wind Farm | ||
| 12:20–1:40 p.m. | Lunch | |||||
| 1:40–3:00 p.m. | Early Afternoon Sessions | Quantifying Tradeoffs for Bats and the Wind Energy Sector Room: Ballroom C Chair: Cris Hein |
Wind Plant and Wake Control II Room: Ballroom D Chair: Michael Stoellinger |
Data-Driven Modeling: Turbine Design and Operation Room: Ponderosa Chair: Nikolay Dimitrov |
Wind Turbine Wake Modeling Room: Pine Chair: Alan Hsieh |
Wake and Fluid Dynamics in Floating Offshore Wind Turbines Room: Ballroom A+B Chair: Matt Lackner |
| 1:40–2:00 p.m. | Anthony Lopez, An Element of Realism: Wind Energy Development and its Intersection with Societal Values, Laws and Processes Related to Sustaining Wildlife Populations and Natural Heritage | Jonas Gutknecht, The physical mechanisms behind wake mixing enhancement with dynamic individual pitch control | Apurva Anand, Improved Deep Learning Module for Inverse Design of Wind Turbine Airfoils | Sebastiano Stipa, An Analytical Shear Stress Model to Improve Modeling of Deep-Array Effects and Farm Wake Recovery | Zein Sadek, Wake Development in Floating Offshore Windfarms | |
| 2:00–2:20 p.m. | Bethany Straw, Status and Trends of North American Bat Populations Facing Multiple Stressors | Ken Brown, Improving Wind Plant Performance in Stable Atmospheric Conditions with Active Wake Control | Moritz Gräfe, Lidar-based state estimation of floating offshore wind turbines using physics-informed multi LSTM networks | Kerry Klemmer, Modeling and budget analysis of turbulent wakes in the stratified atmospheric boundary layer | Irene Rivera Arreba, Effect of wake meandering on two submersibles with a shared mooring line | |
| 2:20–2:40 p.m. | Charles Labuzzetta, Information gain from fine-resolution bat mortality data: comparing mortality estimates at the facility and turbine level | Pete Bachant, Development and Validation of a Closed-Loop Model-Based Wake Steering Control System Installed at a Large Onshore Wind Plant | Jacob Morris, A Multi-Sensor Approach for Measuring Bird and Bat Collisions with Offshore Wind Turbines | Lucas Carmo, Investigating FOWT-wake interactions using FAST.Farm |
Manuel Ayala, A moving surface drag model for LES of wind over waves and comparisons with simulation and laboratory data sets | |
| 2:40–3:00 p.m. | Megan Seymour, Beyond Bats/MW; The value in standardizing post-construction bat mortality monitoring and reporting to better inform species-specific risk | Paul Hulsman, Data-driven control strategy using high-fidelity simulations | Keshav Panthi, Wind Tunnel Tests with a Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Emulator: Power Performance and Load Analysis | |||
| 3:00–3:20 p.m. | Coffee Break | |||||
| 3:20–4:40 p.m. | Late Afternoon Sessions | Atmospheric Boundary Layer Room: Ballroom C Chair: Jeffrey Freedman |
Airborne Wind Room: Ballroom D Chair: Jochem Weber |
Offshore Wind Plant Modeling Room: Ponderosa Chair: Matt Churchfield |
Reduced-Cost Models for Wind Turbines and Plants Room: Ballroom A+B Chair: Dan Houck |
Economics and Social Acceptance of Offshore Wind Room: Pine Chair: Patrick Gilman |
| 3:20–3:40 p.m. | Ghanesh Narasimhan, Analytical model of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer including wind veer, thermal stratification effects, and a self-consistent geostrophic drag law | Dylan Eijkelhof, Design Load Case Analysis of a Box Wing Kite and its Scaling Properties | Mark Stoelinga, Use of Mesoscale Modeling with a Wind Farm Parameterization to Demonstrate the Effects of Long-Range External Wakes and the Optimization of US Offshore Wind Development Areas | Storm Mata, Modeling the effect of wind speed and direction shear on utility-scale wind turbine power production | Daniel Mulas Hernando, Summary Analysis of Different Offshore Wind Capacity Density Drivers in Proposed U.S. Projects and Impacts on Progress towards State and Federal Deployment Targets | |
| 3:40–4:00 p.m. | Jan Friedrich, Wind fields from atmospheric turbulence measurements | Jelle Poland, Virtual Wind Tunnel for Soft-Wing Kites Harvesting Airborne Wind Energy | Hannah Williams, Relative impacts of turbulence and waves on a finite offshore wind farm with atmospheric inflow and oceanic waves | John Kurelek, A Combined Experimental-Analytical Study of a Yaw-Misaligned Wind Turbine: Thrust, Power and Wake Predictions | Aubryn Cooperman, Port Infrastructure Requirements for Commercial Scale Floating Wind Deployment | |
| 4:00–4:20 p.m. | Nathan Agarwal, Which stability metrics give insight for wind energy applications in complex terrain? Analysis of Perdigão towers | Rishikesh Joshi, Comparative Assessment of Wind Turbines and Ground-generation Airborne Wind Energy Systems | Chris Qin, Ideal Rotor Size for an Offshore Wind Farm based on Grid Value | Michael LoCascio, FLOWERS AEP Model Sensitivity Analysis and Validation | Stacy Doore, Immersive Environments and Social Acceptance of Floating Offshore Wind in the Gulf of Maine | |
| 4:20–4:40 p.m. | Yun Chang, Two decades of wind turbulence statistics over the coastal ocean at the Martha’s Vineyard Air Sea Interaction Tower | Sam Kaufman-Martin, Annular Wakes: Wind Tunnel Measurements, Reduced-Order Models, and Their Applications to Airborne Wind Energy | Sam Williams, Evaluating Wake Models for Offshore Wind Farms: A Portfolio Wide Study | Jeffery Allen, Capturing Time-Varying Wake Dynamics Using Hybridized Actuator Disks in Steady-State Simulations for Improved Optimization Efficiency | Huzaifa Syed, Optimization of dynamic cable configurations for FOWTs | |
| 4:45–5:15 p.m. |
Roundtable Discussion |
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| 6–8 p.m. | (Optional) Banquet (Costumes Encouraged!) | |||||
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| 8:00–8:30 a.m. | Registration | |||||
| 8:30–10:00 a.m. |
Plenary Session: Long-Term Challenges Moderator: Katherine Dykes, Technical University of Denmark |
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| 10:00–10:20 a.m. | Coffee Break | |||||
| 10:20 a.m.–12:20 p.m. |
Morning Sessions |
Rotor Aerodynamics and Aeroelasticity - Experiments Room: Ballroom C Chair: Tanmoy Chatterjee |
Systems Engineering and Optimization Room: Ballroom A+B Chair: Andrew Ning |
Coastal Wind Resource and Wind Wave Coupling Room: Ballroom D Chair: Christina Archer |
Wind Energy Operations Optimization II Room: Pine Chair: Julian Quick |
Distributed Wind Room: Ponderosa Chairs: Brent Summerville and Myra Blaylock |
| 10:20–10:40 a.m. | Jonathan Naughton, Rotor Aerodynamics, Aero-Elastics, and Wake Campaign Overview | Carlo L. Bottasso, Eco-conscious Wind Energy Systems: Design Beyond Purely Economic Metrics | Geng Xia, Investigating the uncertainty of coupled ocean-wave-atmosphere mesoscale model in simulating significant wave height along the California Coast | Aubryn Cooperman, Assessing the Potential for Improved Lubricants to Reduce Costs of Wind Turbine Operations and Maintenance | Sarah Barrows, Advances in Distributed Wind Valuation | |
| 10:40–11:00 a.m. | Nicholas Hamilton, Large-scale photogrammetry for wind turbine blade aeroelastic characterization |
PJ Stanley, Wind Farm Design for Maximum Value Instead of Maximum Energy | Raghu Krishnamurthy, Observations and Multi-scale Modeling off the U.S. West Coast | David Domingos, Tugger Line Control for Floating Installation of OWTs | Abhineet Gupta, Modeling, Implementation and Validation of Tail Fin Aerodynamics in OpenFAST | |
| 11:00–11:20 a.m. | Alex Rybchuk, Reconstructing Dynamic Turbine Inflow using Lidar Measurements, Large-Eddy Simulation, and Generative Machine Learning | Emmanuel Branlard, Accounting for stochasticity in wind turbine design using intrusive methods | Jovanka Nikolic, Atmospheric Boundary Layer at the Land-Sea Interface: Turbulent Wind Structures and Temperature Fronts at the Interface | Noah Myrent, Wind Turbine Blade Damage Quantification Through Visual Inspection, Analysis and Statistical Characterization | Kevin Fletcher, Reintroduction of Yaw Friction Model in OpenFAST | |
| 11:20–11:40 a.m. | Mayank Chetan, Validation of the Aeroelastic Stability Analysis of a 2.8MW Wind Turbine | Anugrah Jo Joshy, Approaches for accelerating gradient-based wind farm layout optimization | Nicola Bodini, The 2023 National Offshore Wind data set: NOW-23 | Tanveer Hussain, Grid and Wind Transient Ride Through Assessment of Type-5 Synchronous Wind Turbine | Dmitry Duplyakin, Evaluation of Wind Resource Estimation Methods for Distributed Turbines in Built Environments | |
| 11:40 a.m.–12:00 p.m. | Erik Fritz, Experimental and numerical analysis of the effect of blade sweep on a scaled IEA 15 MW wind turbine | Kathryn Jones, Concrete Additive Manufacturing for Ultra-Tall Wind Turbine Towers and Foundations: A Life Cycle Environmental Assessment | Prakash Mohan, Observational assessment of metocean conditions in the WFIP3 region | Mitchell Rencheck, Survey of Technologies and Strategies for Processing End-of-Life Wind Turbine Blades | Kenneth Visser, On the Inaccuracies of Using the IEC 61400-21-1 Standard for Wind Turbine Power Curves |
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| 12:00–12:20 p.m | Narges Helmisiasifariman, Modal Characterization of Dynamic Stall | Ipsita Mishra, Design and Cost Impacts of Active Load Control on Wind Turbines of Varying Size | David Rudolph, Landed property as mediator, barrier and enabler of wind farm projects in advanced energy transitions: European perspectives | |||
| 12:20–1:40 p.m. | Lunch | |||||
| 1:40–3:00 p.m. | Early Afternoon Sessions | Exploring the Diverse Toolbox for Addressing Environmental Impacts Room: Ballroom C Chair: Amanda Hale |
Low Level Jets and Coastal Processes Room: Ballroom D Chair: Julie Lundquist |
Controls Room: Ponderosa Chairs: Eric Simley and Jan-Willem van Wingerden |
Wind Plant Blockage Room: Ballroom A+B Chair: Ganesh Vijayakuma |
VAWT and Tilted Rotor Wakes Room: Pine Chair: Jonathan Naughton |
| 1:40–2:00 p.m. | Eliot Quon, Progress towards Eagle-Safe Wind Farms | Andrew Kumler, 20-year Modeled Spatiotemporal Low-Level Jet Climatology Along the U.S. Mid-Atlantic Coast | Aoife Henry, Investigation of H-Infinity-Synthesized Individual Pitch Controllers for Wind Turbines | Lawrence Cheung, Development of analytical blockage models capturing shear and atmospheric stratification | David Bensason, Advancing towards high energy density wind farms: an experimental study into the wake re-energization processes of the X-Rotor | |
| 2:00–2:20 p.m. | Michael True, Reducing Bat Risk, While Optimizing Energy Production: Supplying a Win-Win for Bat Conservation and the Wind Energy Industry | Elizabeth McCabe, Sensitivity Analysis of the Sea Breeze and Low-Level Jet in the Region of the New York Bight using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model | David Stockhouse, Bifurcations in Limit Behavior of a Controlled Floating Wind Turbine | Myra Blaylock, LES Simulations to Inform Curtailment Effects on Blockage Measurements | Andre Ribeiro, Interaction of Vertical Axis Wind Turbines: Simulations with a Free Wake Panel Method | |
| 2:20–2:40 p.m. | Bonnie Ram, Accelerated Deployment of Offshore Wind in the Phillippines and Environmental and Social Impact Assessments | Emily de Jong, Mechanisms and Implications of Low Level Jets in the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Environment for Offshore Wind Energy | Maarten van den Broek, Model-predictive control for dynamic wake steering in large wind farms | Wasi Ahmed, Interaction of a wind turbine array with the incoming turbulent boundary layer: A wind tunnel study |
Jeffrey Johnston, Large-Eddy Simulation of Tilted-Rotor Turbines in Neutral and Unstable Atmospheres | |
| 2:40–3:00 p.m. | Andrew Swift, Wind-U: An On-line Multi-University Platform in Wind Energy Graduate Education | Sayahnya Roy, LiDAR Experiment on the MABL at Coastal Region: Effects of Atmospheric Stability on Wind Shear | Marcus Becker, Yaw trajectory optimization for dynamic wind farm control - a basis function approach | Miguel Sanchez Gomez, How is wind plant blockage amplified in stable boundary layers? | Adhyanth Giri Ajay, Numerical study of wake re-energisation of an X-shaped vertical-axis wind turbine | |
| 3:00–3:20 p.m. | Coffee Break | |||||
| 3:20–4:40 p.m. | Late Afternoon Sessions | Digital Solutions for Wind Energy Development and Operations Room: Ballroom A+B Chair: Shawn Sheng |
Impact of Various Factors (Temporal/Spatial/Rotation) on Wakes and Wind Plants Room: Ballroom C Chair: Michael Stoellinger |
New Designs, Testing, and Simulations for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines Room: Ballroom D Chair: Roger Bergua |
Experimental Wind Farm Flow Room: Ponderosa Chair: Nicholas Hamilton |
Atmospheric - AWAKEN Room: Pine Chair: Nicola Bodini |
| 3:20–3:40 p.m. | Andrew Glaws, Sound at scale: characterizing impacts of noise ordinances on the onshore wind energy technical potential for the United States | Ryan Scott, Spatial Heterogeneity as an Indicator of Multiple Wind Plant Performance | Lu Wang, OpenFAST Modeling of the T-Omega Wind Floating Offshore Wind Turbine System | Jean Gonzalez Silva, Wind Tunnel Testing of Wind Farm Control Strategies for Power Regulation | Arianna Jordan, A First Look into Boundary Layer-Wind Farm Interactions from the American Wake Experiment | |
| 3:40–4:00 p.m. | Rupp Carriveau, Digital Multi-Party Wind Energy Contracts Informed by Real-Time Valuation Engineering | David Rosencrans, Spatiotemporal Variability of Icing Conditions Across the Mid-Atlantic Bight | Ahmed Radwan, Optimal design of Padeye for Deeply Embedded Ring Anchor | Jacob Silverstein, Measuring the effects of wake steering with nacelle-mounted scanning lidar | Yelena Pichugina, Mobile Micro-Doppler Lidar for wind farm wake a study | |
| 4:00–4:20 p.m. | Juan Gallego-Calderon, A Collaborative Vision for Wind Energy Data and Digitalization R&D | Gordon Stewart, Convergence of Floating Wind Farm Fatigue Loads due to Simulation Length | INVITED TALK: Matt Hall, Recent Improvements to the RAFT Model for Efficient Modeling of Floating Wind Turbines | Brian Hirth, Dual-Doppler Radar Documentation of Wind Farm Interaction and Regional Wind Flows during Project AWAKEN | Matteo Puccioni, Estimating the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Height from LiDAR Vertical-staring Measurements | |
| 4:20–4:40 p.m. | David Maniaci, Experiment and Instrumentation Priorities for Offshore Wind Model Validation | Raghu Krishnamurthy, Observations of momentum flux profiles around a wind farm | ||||
| 4:45–5:15 p.m. | Awards Ceremony Room: Ballroom A+B |
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| 5:15–5:45 p.m. | Roundtable Discussion Rooms: Ballroom C, Ballroom D, Ponerosa, Pine |
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