Keynote Speakers
Keynote Speakers
Prof. Julie K. Lundquist
Turbulence to turbine wakes: Opportunities in the atmospheric science of wind energy
Prof. Lundquist leads an interdisciplinary research group at Johns Hopkins University, with a joint appointment at the National Laboratory of the Rockies (formerly the National Renewable Energy Laboratory). Her research group uses observational and computational approaches to understand the atmospheric boundary layer, with emphasis on atmospheric influences on energy such as wind turbine productivity, wind turbine wake dynamics, and downwind impacts of wind energy. Before joining JHU, Dr. Lundquist designed and led energy projects at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and led a research group at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her Ph.D. is in Astrophysical, Planetary, and Atmospheric Science from the University of Colorado Boulder, as is her M.S. degree. She studied English and Physics as an undergraduate at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas. She has authored or co-authored over 150 refereed publications and over 200 conference presentations. Her recent research focuses on offshore wind farm wakes and marine boundary layer dynamics (DOE WFIP3), interactions between offshore energy infrastructure and hurricanes (OWIND), and onshore wind farm wakes (through the DOE AWAKEN project). Beyond wind energy, her research projects include assessment of dissipation rate in the atmospheric boundary layer (NSF-CAREER), flow in complex terrain (NSF: Perdigão), and improving simulation capabilities for wildfire (DOI) and urban fires (OPP). She is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (2020) and received the NSF CAREER award (2016).
The actuator line method: Background + developments beyond wind energy
Jens N. Sørensen
Jens N. Sørensen is Professor of Fluid Mechanics at DTU Wind and Energy Systems. His research interests include Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics of Wind Turbines, Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Vortex Flows. He is the main developer of the actuator line technique and has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed articles, mostly in the field of wind energy.
Philippe Spalart
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Philippe Spalart studied Mathematics and Engineering in Paris, and obtained an Aerospace PhD at Stanford/NASA-Ames in 1982. Still at Ames, he conducted Direct Numerical Simulations of transitional and turbulent boundary layers. Moving to Boeing in 1990, he created the Spalart-Allmaras one-equation Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes turbulence model. He wrote a review and co-holds a patent on airplane trailing vortices. In 1997 he proposed the Detached-Eddy Simulation approach, blending RANS and Large-Eddy Simulation to address separated flows at high Reynolds numbers with a manageable cost. He received the AIAA Fluid Dynamics Award in 2006, became a Boeing Senior Technical Fellow in 2007, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017, and had the AIAA Reed Award for 2019. His papers have been cited 54,000 times. Recent work includes refinements to the SA model and DES, computational aeroacoustics, theories for aerodynamics and turbulence, and the design of research experiments. Philippe retired from Boeing in 2020. He works part-time as Head of Flow Physics at Flexcompute.