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); CMMI Division Award No. 0727989 (current)
Sandia National Laboratories
Grant Nos. 743358 (current); 681008 (current); 030914 (expired)
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board's Advanced Research Program [ARP]
Award Nos. 003658-0100-2007 (current); 003658-0272-2001 (expired)
Post-doctoral fellow position available starting January 2009
Position requires background/skills in most of these areas: applied probability and statistics; CFD; wind engineering; structural reliability
Please contact me if you are interested (e-mail: lmanuelATmail.utexas.edu)
Students - Past and Present
Puneet Agarwal, PhD graduate, August 2008 (dissertation available here)
... now at Stress Engineering Services, Inc., Houston
Korn Saranyasoontorn, PhD graduate, May 2006 (dissertation available here)
... now at Technip, Houston
Hieu Huy Nguyen, PhD student (current)
Erica Bush, MS graduate, August 2009 (thesis
available here)
Chungwook Sim, MS graduate, August 2009 (thesis
available here) ... now a PhD student at Purdue University
Patrick Ragan, MS graduate, May 2007 (thesis
available here) ... now with Halvorson and Partners - Structural, Chicago, Illinois
Luke Nelson, MS graduate, May 2003 (thesis
available here) ... now with Datum Engineers, Austin, Texas
Abhinav Sultania, MS student (current)
Azrin Amin, BS student, 2008-2009
Sergio Flores, BS student, 2007-2009
Liliam Fernandez, BS student, 2007-08
Erin Keys, BS student, 2006-07
Chris Wright, BS graduate, 2005-2006 (report
available here)
Aaron Sterns, BS graduate, 2002-2003 (report available here)
Others who have worked with us:
Laura Stegall [8th Grade Science Teacher, Ridgeview Middle School, Round
Rock Independent School District)
Martin Regner (BS graduate)
Web site for learning about wind turbines, Texas, etc...
(for middle school students and others - apologies, this is unmaintained and out of date)
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
Towards an improved understanding of statistical extrapolation for wind turbine extreme loads
(in Wind Energy 2008; 11(6): 613–635; DOI:10.1002/we.303)
Extreme Loads for an Offshore Wind Turbine using Statistical Extrapolation from Limited Field Data
(in Wind Energy 2008; 11(6): 673–684; DOI:10.1002/we.301)
On the propagation of uncertainty in inflow turbulence to wind turbine loads
(in Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 2008 - doi:10.1016/j.jweia.2008.01.005)
Empirical Wind Turbine Load Distributions Using Field Data
(in Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Trans. ASME, 2008)
Comparing Estimates of Wind Turbine Fatigue Loads using Time-Domain and Spectral Methods
(in Wind Engineering, 2007)
Turbine Design Loads using the Environmental Contour Method
(in Journal of Solar Energy Engineering including Wind Energy and Building Energy Conservation, Trans. ASME, 2006)
Symmetry Considerations When Using Proper Orthogonal Decomposition for Predicting Wind Turbine Yaw Loads
(in Journal of Solar Energy Engineering including Wind Energy and Building Energy Conservation, Trans. ASME, 2006)
Low-Dimensional Representations of Inflow Turbulence and Wind Turbine Response Using Proper Orthogonal Decomposition
(in Journal of Solar Energy Engineering including Wind Energy and Building Energy Conservation, Trans. ASME, 2005)
On Assessing the Accuracy of Offshore Wind Turbine Reliability-based Design Loads from the Environmental Contour Method
(in International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering, 2005)
A Comparison of Wind Turbine Design Loads in Different Environments Using Inverse Reliability Techniques
(in Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Trans. ASME, 2004)
A Comparison of Standard Coherence Models for Inflow Turbulence With Estimates from Field Measurements
(in Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Trans. ASME, 2004)
Efficient models for wind turbine extreme loads using inverse reliability
(in Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 2004 - doi:10.1016/j.jweia.2004.04.002)
Statistical Analysis of Wind Turbine Inflow and Structural Response Data From the LIST Program
(in Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Trans. ASME, 2003)
Parametric Models for Estimating Wind Turbine Fatigue Loads for Design
(in Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Trans. ASME, 2001)
Book co-authored
Environmental Impacts of Wind-Energy Projects
(National Research Council, The National Academies Press, 2007. - ISBN-10: 0-309-10834-9; ISBN-13: 978-0-309-10834-8.)
Four-page summary
Conference Proceedings
Modeling Nonlinear Irregular Waves in Reliability Studies for Offshore Wind Turbines
(in Proceedings, OMAE 2009 Conference)
The Influence of Foundation Modeling Assumptions on Long-Term Load Prediction for Offshore Wind Turbines
(in Proceedings, OMAE 2009 Conference)
Foundation Models for Offshore Wind Turbines
(in Proceedings, AIAA 2009 Annual Meeting)
The Influence of Stable Boundary Layer Flows on Wind Turbine Fatigue Loads
(in Proceedings, AIAA 2009 Annual Meeting)
A Framework for the Reliability Analysis of Wind Turbines against Windstorms and Non-Standard Inflow Definitions
(in Proceedings, AIAA 2009 Annual Meeting)
On the Modeling of Nonlinear Waves for Prediction of Long-Term Offshore Wind Turbine Loads
(in Proceedings, OMAE 2008 Conference)
The Influence of Foundation Modeling Assumptions on Long-Term Load Prediction for Offshore Wind Turbines
(in Proceedings, OMAE 2008 Conference)
Towards an Improved Understanding of Statistical Extrapolation for Wind Turbine Extreme Loads
(in Proceedings, AIAA 2008 Annual Meeting)
Wave Models for Offshore Wind Turbines
(in Proceedings, AIAA 2008 Annual Meeting)
Empirical Wind Turbine Load Distributions using Field Data
(in Proceedings, OMAE 2007 Conference)
Simulation of Offshore Wind Turbine Response for Extreme Limit States
(in Proceedings, OMAE 2007 Conference)
Statistical Extrapolation Methods for Estimating Wind Turbine Extreme Loads
(in Proceedings, AIAA 2007 Annual Meeting)
On the Joint Wind-Wave Environment and its Influence on Offshore Wind Turbine Loads
(in Proceedings, AIAA 2007 Annual Meeting)
Design Loads for an Offshore Wind Turbine using Statistical Extrapolation from Limited Field Data
(in Proceedings, ISOPE 2006)
The Use of Tall Tower Field Data for Estimating Wind Turbine Power Performance
(in Proceedings, AWEA 2006)
On the study of uncertainty in inflow turbulence model parameters in wind turbine applications
(in Proceedings, AIAA 2006 Annual Meeting)
Design loads for wind turbines using the environmental contour method
(in Proceedings, AIAA 2006 Annual Meeting)
On the Use of Proper Orthogonal Decomposition to Describe Inflow Turbulence and Wind Turbine Loads
(in Proceedings, ICOSSAR 2005)
Low-Dimensional Representations of Wind Turbine Inflow Turbulence and Response using Proper Orthogonal Decomposition
(in Proceedings, AIAA 2005 Annual Meeting)
On estimation of empirical orthogonal modes in inflow turbulence for wind turbines
(in Proceedings, PMC 2004 Conference)
ISOPE 2004 Conference
(in Proceedings, ISOPE 2004 Conference)
A comparison of wind turbine design loads in different environments using inverse reliability
(in Proceedings, AIAA 2004 Annual Meeting)
On estimation of coherence in inflow turbulence based on field measurements
(in Proceedings, AIAA 2004 Annual Meeting)
XL2003 Conference
(in Proceedings, XL 2003 Conference)
ICASP 2003 Conference
(in Proceedings, ICASP 2003 Conference)
AIAA 2003 Annual Meeting
(in Proceedings, AIAA 2003 Annual Meeting)
Moment-based fatigue load models for wind energy systems
(in Proceedings, ICOSSAR 2001)
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)
Questions/comments?
If you have any, please contact me by e-mail at lmanuel@mail.utexas.edu
Thank you!