Numerical Simulations of Wind Turbine Wakes for Multi-Scale Geophysical Applications

Speaker bio

Cristina L. Archer is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences and in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware. Her areas of research range from the geophysical fluid dynamics and meteorology to wind power, climate change and air pollution numerical modelling and she is now the Director of the Center for Research in Wind (CReW), which focuses on wind energy, in particular offshore, and its integration in the electric grid. Cristina has been conducting research on wind energy since 2003 and has written over 50 peer-reviewed articles on wind turbine wakes, wind resource assessment, climate consequences of large deployment of wind turbines, grid integration of offshore wind, computational fluid dynamics for wind energy. She has been a supporter of airborne wind energy since 2009, when she organized the very first airborne wind energy conference in Chico, California, although at that time it was called “high-altitude wind power” or HAWP.s