RESEARCH & EDUCATION ACTIVITIES
RELATED TO WIND TURBINE LOADS


Lance Manuel

Associate Professor
Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
(Structures Division)

University of Texas At Austin


Funding Agencies
National Science Foundation - CAREER Award No. 0449128 (current)
Sandia National Laboratories - Grant No. 30914 (current)
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board's Advanced Research Program [ARP] - Award No. 003658-0272-2001 (expired)


Students - Past and Present
Korn Saranyasoontorn, PhD graduate, May 2006 (dissertation available here) ... now at Technip, Houston
Puneet Agarwal, PhD student (current)
Pasca Patta, PhD student (current)
Patrick Ragan, MS student (current)
Luke Nelson, MS graduate, May 2003 (thesis available here) ... now with Datum Engineers, Austin, Texas
Chris Wright, BS student, May 2006 (report available here) ... currently a senior in civil engineering at UT-Austin
Aaron Sterns, BS graduate,  May 2003 (report available here) ... now at the University of Washington


Others who have worked with us:
Laura Stegall [8th Grade Science Teacher, Ridgeview Middle School, Round Rock Independent School District)
Martin Regner (BS graduate)
NEW!! Web site for learning about wind turbines, Texas, etc... (under development, for middle school students and others)


Selected Publications [most recent at the top]

Journal Articles
Journal of Solar Energy Engineering including Wind Energy and Building Energy Conservation - Turbine Design Loads using the Environmental Contour Method (Preprint, to appear in Nov. 2006 issue of ASME JSEE)
Journal of Solar Energy Engineering including Wind Energy and Building Energy Conservation - Symmetry Considerations in using POD for Turbine Yaw Loads (Preprint, to appear in Nov. 2006 issue of ASME JSEE)
Journal of Solar Energy Engineering including Wind Energy and Building Energy Conservation - On Proper Orthogonal Decomposition and Turbine Loads (ASME, Volume 127 (4), pp. 553-562, Nov. 2005)
International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering (IJOPE; Volume 15 (2), pp. 1-9, June 2005)
Journal of Solar Energy Engineering - on inverse reliability (appeared in Nov. 2004 issue)
Journal of Solar Energy Engineering
- on coherence (appeared in Nov. 2004 issue)
Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics
(JWEIA; Volume 92 (10), pp. 789-804, August 2004)

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering (ASME, Volume 125 (4), pp. 541-550, Nov. 2003)
Journal of Solar Energy Engineering (ASME, Volume 123 (4), pp. 346-355, Nov. 2001)

Conference Proceedings
ISOPE 2006 Conference - Offshore Wind Turbine Design Loads

AWEA 2006 Conference - The Use of Tall Tower Field Data for Estimating Wind Turbine Power Performance
AIAA 2006 Annual Meeting - On the study of uncertainty in inflow turbulence model parameters in wind turbine applications
AIAA 2006 Annual Meeting - Design loads for wind turbines using the environmental contour method
ICOSSAR 2005 - On the Use of Proper Orthogonal Decomposition to Describe Inflow Turbulence and Wind Turbine Loads
AIAA 2005 Annual Meeting - Low-Dimensional Representations of Wind Turbine Inflow Turbulence and Response using
                                      Proper Orthogonal Decomposition

Probabilistic Mechanics 2004 Conference - On estimation of empirical orthogonal modes in inflow turbulence for wind turbines
ISOPE 2004 Conference

AIAA 2004 Annual Meeting - A comparison of wind turbine design loads in different environments using inverse reliability
AIAA 2004 Annual Meeting - On estimation of coherence in inflow turbulence based on field measurements
XL2003 Conference
ICASP 2003 Conference
AIAA 2003 Annual Meeting
ICOSSAR 2001 - Moment-based fatigue load models for wind energy systems
AIAA 2001 Annual Meeting

Miscellaneous technical Reports, etc.

Sandia Report (published in 1999) - On probabilistic models for wind turbine loads


Completed Advanced Research Program (ARP) Project funded by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Establishing loads for the safe design of wind turbines using simulations and field data
Web site summarizing project activities (created by ex-PhD student, Korn Saranyasoontorn)


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Questions/comments?

    If you have any, please contact me by e-mail at lmanuel@mail.utexas.edu

Thank you! 
Last updated 08/30/06