CNIC: U.S.-Denmark Project Development in Wind Energy Systems Research and Engineering Education

由首席研究员Kevin托德Lowe领导的这次催化项目开发访问将启动弗吉尼亚理工学院和州立大学（弗吉尼亚理工大学）可再生能源和空气动力学测试中心（CREATe）的研究人员与丹麦技术大学（DTU）风能系的同行之间的新合作。 这两个机构的科学家在风能系统的基础和应用研究方面拥有成熟的专业知识和共同利益。 他们正在进行的活动和现有的设施是完全互补的，以解决组件规模的风能测试（弗吉尼亚理工大学）与全面的风力涡轮机研究（DTU）。一个平衡的、互利的优势匹配将使这个美国-丹麦团队将在可再生能源领域做出重大贡献。 为了更广泛的影响，四名美国研究生将参加弗吉尼亚理工大学的规划访问，通过接触DTU的全面测试能力获得宝贵的早期职业经验。 为了充分实现后续合作和提案准备计划，美国和丹麦的研究人员和学生将于2015年9月26日至10月4日期间锚他们的访问，在风能设施所在的DTU Riskorne校园举行核心规划会议。 主要目标是共同勾勒出解决关键研究需求的下一步措施，包括教育和技术开发，以促进风能在风洞叶片降噪等领域的发展。这些美国和丹麦合作伙伴在风能工程研究和教育方面具有重要的互补能力。DTU团队提供世界一流的设施，例如高达10兆瓦规模的全尺寸风力涡轮机测试和专门针对风能科学和技术细节的广泛课程目录。弗吉尼亚理工大学拥有美国领先的风力涡轮机叶片空气动力学和航空声学研究学术设施，即稳定性风洞，同时提供有关空气动力学，航空声学，计算流体动力学和仪器仪表的几个基本主题的课程。合作伙伴设想利用双方的独特优势进行研究合作和协作的广泛机会。初步的成功预计将产生所需的数据，用于验证计划的混合解析/建模湍流模拟，从风洞开发到涡轮机规模和农场规模。 此外，还将组织研究生双向综合研究访问，为必须解决可再生能源重要问题的下一代科学家和工程师提供所需的广阔视野。 为了产生更广泛的影响，合作伙伴设想将课程交流和可能的国外研究学期，以更充分地建立预期的长期美国-丹麦在研究和教育方面的合作。

This catalytic project development visit led by principal investigator, Kevin Todd Lowe, will initiate new collaboration between researchers at the Center for Renewable Energy and Aerodynamic Testing (CREATe) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) and counterparts in the Department of Wind Energy at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Scientists at both institutions have well-established expertise and share common interests in basic and applied research on wind energy systems. Their ongoing activities and existing facilities are fully complementary for addressing component scale wind energy testing (Virginia Tech) with full scale wind turbine research (DTU). A balanced, mutually beneficial match of strengths would position this U.S.-Danish team to make significant future contributions in renewable energy. For broader impact, four U.S. graduate students will participate in the Virginia Tech planning visit to gain valuable early career experience through exposure to the full-scale testing capabilities at DTU. To fully realize plans for follow-on cooperation and proposal preparation, the U.S. and Danish researchers and students will anchor their visit, during September 26-October 4, 2015, with a core planning meeting at the DTU Risø campus where the Department of Wind Energy facilities are located. The primary goal is to jointly outline the next steps for addressing critical needs for research, including education as well as technological development, for wind energy advancement in areas such as noise reduction on wind tunnel blades.These U.S. and Danish partners have significant and complementary capabilities in wind energy engineering research and education. The DTU team offers world class facilities such as full-scale wind turbine testing up to the 10 megawatt scale and an extensive catalog of courses geared specifically toward the details of wind energy science and technology. Virginia Tech hosts a leading U.S. academic facility for research on wind turbine blade aerodynamics and aeroacoustics, the Stability Wind Tunnel, while offering courses on several fundamental topics in aerodynamics, aeroacoustics, computational fluid dynamics and instrumentation. The partners envision extensive opportunities for research cooperation and collaboration using the unique strengths of both sides. Initial success is expected to produce the data required for validating planned hybrid resolved/modeled turbulence simulations from wind tunnel developments to turbine-scale and farm-scale. Furthermore, integrated graduate student research visits in both directions are to be organized to provide the broad perspective needed by the next generation of scientists and engineers who must tackle important problems in renewable energy. For broader impact, the partners envision incorporating a course exchange and possibly research semesters abroad to more fully build the intended long-term U.S.-Danish collaboration in research and education.