Publications

Last Publications

Cortina, G. Calaf, M. (2017) Evolution of the mean kinetic energy through finite-sized wind farms and influence of turbine arrangement: power output predictor model (Submitted).
Feliciano, J. Cortina, G. Spear, A. Calaf, M. (2017)  Study of the maximum displacement of the NREL 5MW wind turbine tower during diurnal aerodynamic loading conditions and development of a new generalized deflection model (Submitted).
Sharma, V. Cortina, G. Margairaz, F. Parlange, M. B. Calaf, M. (2017). Evolution of flow characteristics through finite-sized wind farms and influence of turbine arrangement (Submitted).
Cortina, G. Karkera, Y. Ibarra, L. Calaf, M. (2017) Evaluation of Taller Wind Turbine Towers under different Atmospheric Stratification Conditions (Submitted).
Naseem Ali, Nicholas Hamilton, Gerard Cortina, Marc Calaf and Raul Bayoan Cal (2017). Turbulence Characteristics of a Thermally Stratified Wind Turbine Array Boundary Layer: Anisotropy Stress Invariants (Submitted).
Naseem Ali, Gerard Cortina, Marc Calaf and Raul Bayoan Cal (2017). Turbulence Characteristics of a Thermally Strati field Wind Turbine Array Boundary Layer: Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (Accepted). Journal of Fluid Mechanics.
Cortina, G. Sharma, V. Calaf, M. (2017). Wind Farm Density and Harvested Power in Very Large Wind Farms: a Low-Order Model. Physics Review of Fluids.

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Travis J. Morrison, Marc Calaf, Harindra J.S. Fernando, Timothy A. Price, and Eric R. Pardyjak (2017).  A methodology for computing spatially and temporally varying surface sensible heat flux from thermal imagery. Royal meteorological society.

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Cortina, G. Calaf, M. (2016). Turbulence upstream of wind turbines: a large-eddy simulation approach to investigate the use of wind Lidars.  Renewable energy.

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Cortina, G. Calaf, M. Cal, R. (2016). Distribution of mean kinetic energy around a single wind turbine and a characteristic wind turbine of a very large wind farm. Physics Review of Fluids.

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Cortina, G. Sharma, V. Calaf, M. (2016). Investigation of the incoming wind vector for improved wind turbine yaw-adjustment under different atmospheric and wind farm conditions. Renewable energy.

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Sharma, V.  Parlange, M. B.  Calaf, M. (2016). Perturbations to the Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of the Diurnally-Varying Atmospheric Boundary Layer Due to an Extensive Wind Farm. Boundary-Layer Meteorology.
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Sharma, V. Calaf, M. Lehning and M.B. Parlange (2015). Time-adaptive wind turbine model for an LES framework. Wind Energy.

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R. Mutzner, S.V. Weijs, P. Tarolli, M. Calaf, H.J. Oldroyd, M.B. Parlange (2015). Controls on the diurnal streamflow cycles in two subbasins of an alpine headwater catchment. Water Resour. 
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