RESEARCH & EDUCATION ACTIVITIES
RELATED TO
WIND TURBINE
LOADS
Lance Manuel
Associate Professor
Civil,
Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
(Structures
Division)
University
of Texas At Austin
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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!