Mark Kelly has been working for two decades with boundary-layer meteorology, CFD, and statistics, applying these to wind resource assessment (WRA) since 2008. His works include universal forms of atmospheric stability distributions, and wind profiles accounting for such; relations connecting shear, stability, turbulence intensity, and turbulence length scales; turbulence parameterizations for RANS & LES; meteorological characterization for loads; top-down (capping inversion) effects; characterization of roughness and flow over complex terrain; uncertainty quantification for wind modelling and its inputs (e.g. WAsP, RANS, WRF), and for the entire WRA process. These are adapted to enginnering forms and use, per industrial needs.

Interests
  • Atmospheric Boundary Layer Turbulence
  • Probabilistic characterization, statistical similarity, and dimensional reduction
  • Uncertainty Quantification
Education
  • PhD in Meteorology (Large-eddy simulation of hurricane boundary layers with sea-spray and waves), 2007

    Penn State University

  • MSci in Physics (Sonic boom propagation through anisotropic turbulence), 1998

    University of Mississippi

Selected publications

Mac Gaunaa, Ang Li, Michael McWilliam, Mark Kelly (2024). Lifting-Line Aerodynamics for Airborne Wind Energy on a Prescribed Path. 10th international Airborne Wind Energy Conference (AWEC 2024): Book of Abstracts

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Mark Kelly, Mac Gaunaa, Michael McWilliam (2024). Towards Atmospheric Event-Driven Loads for Rigid AWES. 10th international Airborne Wind Energy Conference (AWEC 2024): Book of Abstracts

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Mark Kelly, Michael McWilliam, Mac Gaunaa (2022). Towards Flow-Field Characterization for AWES. 9th international Airborne Wind Energy Conference (AWEC 2021): Book of Abstracts

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