UTD Wind

Student Spotlight This fall, graduate student Emmanuvel Joseph Aju, Ph.D. successfully defended his thesis entitled “Wind Tunnel Investigation of Wind Turbine Performance: Winglet Pitching, Yaw Misalignment, and Periodically Oscillating Wind Environments.” He focused on investigating the aerodynamic and structural loads on wind turbines due to wake steering and yaw misalignment. Through experimental wind tunnel studies, he assessed the impacts of these factors on fatigue loading and power output, aiming to provide actionable insights for optimizing wind farm performance. Emmanuvel was advised by Dr. Jin Yaqing and has recently published work in the scholarly journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy. He plans pursue opportunities in the renewable energy sector, particularly in industry or national labs. His goal is to contribute to advancing wind energy technologies through experimental research, aerodynamic optimization, and sustainable energy development. Congratulations on your defense! #windenergyresearch #windenergyscholar #UTDWind

Dr. Yaqing Jin was recently named an Early-Career Fellow of the Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for his research on offshore wind turbine safety. Read more » https://lnkd.in/gAXcVZvj

Help UTD Wind students present their research nationally and internationally and donate today! This fall our Center is raising funds to support our students by providing travel grants to national and international events to showcase their original research as emerging experts in their field. Our center provides opportunities for students to tackle issues facing the global energy transition toward sustainable renewable energy. Your support enables us to provide travel grants to events that empower students to pursue their academic goals, participate in transformative experiences and contribute to a brighter, more interconnected world. Join us in making a difference and shaping the future of global education at UTD. Together, we can inspire, empower and uplift students from around the globe. Use the link below to donate! https://lnkd.in/dYKWyhW5 #StudentResearch #WindEnergy #Giving #lmpactUTD

Student Spotlight This September, graduate student Daniel Bouzolin from UTD Wind presented at the 20th annual PhD Seminar hosted by the Wind Energy section of Uppsala University, AptWind, and the European Academy of Wind Energy (EAWE). The three-day conference took place in Visby, Sweden and it allowed PhD researchers the opportunity to share their work among their peers as a way to get involved with an international community in wind energy. The program featured sessions, posters, and networking events with students and industry leaders. Dan’s presentation titled “Design for Repowering of Wind Farms” examined what happens to wind turbines near the end of their production life. “Instead of thinking of repowering strictly as an (end of life) option, we're looking to design wind farms for planned repowering from the very beginning,” stated Bouzolin. He took a comprehensive outlook that included everything from building stronger, longer-lasting components that can safely be reused in repowering to continued community engagement and sustainability aspects of a long-life wind farm. Wind energy research is a multidisciplinary effort. Events like the EAWE PhD Seminar allow students to forge connections and encourage collaborations in fields outside their concentrations. “This work brings a new view to the industry - a way of designing wind farms of the future. We hope that this outlook can change the way wind farms are currently designed, installed, and maintained,” finished Bouzolin. His approach could potentially extend the life of turbines past the current standards of around 20 years and create a continual repowering model with designs lasting up to 100 years. Dan is advised by Dr. D. Todd Griffith and has a few recent publications in engineering journals and conferences. He believes this event helps give more visibility to his work and connect with others sharing his research interests. The future of wind energy is fortunate to have passionate individuals tackling these challenges with innovation and creativity. Read more about Dan's work here: https://lnkd.in/gUekJPMd #WindEnergy #PhDResearch #Sustainability #UTDWind

Featured Article: Editors Pick A recent paper by researchers with UTD Wind has been selected as an Editor's Pick for the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy. This recognition highlights the significance of their research and is currently featured on the journal's homepage. Congratulations to the authors Emmanuvel Joseph Aju, Pengyao Gong, Devesh Kumar, Mario A. Rotea, and Jin Yaqing! A link to the article can be found here: https://lnkd.in/gxz47CDN For the paper, the team focused on wake flows, power output fluctuations, and unsteady aerodynamic loads on turbines. They ran experiments in our on-campus wind tunnel to understand how oscillating winds affect the performance of scaled turbines, particularly when the turbine is misaligned (or yawed). The Boundary Layer and Subsonic Tunnel (BLAST) at UTD allows researchers to use particle image velocimetry (PIV) to characterize the turbine wake flow dynamics. In PIV, light scattering particles are added to the flow and a laser beam is formed into a light sheet to demonstrate the wind flows visually. The researchers concluded stronger turbine power output fluctuates more with smaller yaw angles and stronger wind variations. Additionally, they observed that as the yaw angle increases, the wind flow is redirected, which can boost the speed of the wake while making it less variable. This can create challenges for other turbines downwind, as they might experience stronger and more unstable wind conditions. #WindEnergyResearch #WindEnergy #UTDWind

Student Spotlight This fall, graduate student Yujie Zhang successfully defended his thesis entitled “Machine Learning Solutions for Wind Turbine and Wind Farm Applications.” He focuses on machine learning solutions for wind turbines and wind farms. Specifically, his research includes the icing prediction on wind turbines and wind farms using data-driven methods, wind direction estimation applications, and the implementation of wake steering methods on scaled wind turbine models. Yujie was advised by Mario A. Rotea and has recently published work in the scholarly journal Energies. He plans to seek a research job in an industrial or national lab and focus on wind energy, machine learning, and time series prediction.   Congratulations on your defense! #windenergyresearch #windenergyscholar #UTDWind

Congratulations to the research team working on improving offshore wind safety for their feature in the July 2024 issue of Wind Systems Magazine. Wind Systems is a monthly magazine covering all aspects of the wind energy industry. Professors D. Todd Griffith, Mario A. Rotea, and Jie Zhang are developing virtual models to simulate wind turbines, and algorithms to extract information about failures from simulation data. The technology will provide information about the conditions and improve safety for offshore wind energy personnel. https://lnkd.in/eVv7Dpbw #WindEnergy #OffeshoreSafety #UTDallas

Researchers from UTD Wind are proud to share their work at The Science of Making Torque from Wind (TORQUE) 2024, an official event by the European Academy of Wind Energy (EAWE). Hosted by the City and the University of Florence, TORQUE is a biennial conference that aims at providing a forum for discussion and technical exchanges on the most recent advances in the field of wind energy science and technology. See the list of presentations below and interact with UTD Wind faculty during the conference! #windenergy #windenergyresearch #UTDWind D. Todd Griffith Presentation - Thursday, May 30,13:30 ·      Design of a Floating Vertical Axis Wind Turbine for Wind-Wave Basin Experiments Posters ·      Wednesday, May 29 - Comparison of 25MW Downwind and Upwind Turbine Designs with Individual Pitch Control ·      Thursday, May 30 - Design for Repowering of Wind Farms: An Initial Framework Giacomo Valerio Iungo Poster - Thursday, May 30 ·      Wind Farm Wakes and Farm-to-Farm Interactions: Lidar and Wind Tunnel Tests Stefano Leonardi Poster - Wednesday, May 29 ·      Numerical investigation of effects of riblets on wind turbine performance ·      Assessing the effect of turbine size on the coherent structures in the wake using DMD Mario A. Rotea Presentation - Thursday, May 30, 11:50 ·      Multi-row extremum seeking for wind power maximization Kianoosh Yousefi Presentation - Thursday, May 30, 13:30 ·      Data-driven met-ocean model for offshore wind energy applications Armin Zare Poster - Thursday, May 30 ·      Three-dimensional stochastic dynamical modeling for wind farm flow estimation Jie Zhang Presentation - Thursday, May 30, 12:10 ·      Techno-Economic Analysis Incorporating Intelligent Operation and Maintenance Management: A Case Study of An Integrated Offshore Wind and Hydrogen Energy System Poster - Wednesday, May 29 ·      Inter-turn Short Circuit Fault Diagnosis and Severity Estimation for Wind Turbine Generators

The Center seeks to fill a research associate position in condition monitoring and control of wind energy systems. The position is to support a recently funded project from the Ocean Safety Energy Institute (OESI) for “Remote Smart Monitoring of Offshore Wind Plant Components.” Apply Below: https://lnkd.in/dZ4QQTiN