Conference: Building on the promise of wind energy through advances in turbulence

要实现全球变暖目标，需要到2030年将风能装机容量增加大约三倍。要实现这一增长，需要迅速增加风力发电场和安装的数量、规模和容量，并在超出我们目前理解的条件下运行。拟议中的研讨会的目标是将风能和湍流社区聚集在一起，讨论应对这些挑战所需的风电场科学进展。在这方面，这些社区之间的密切互动至关重要，因为流体湍流在从叶片空气动力学和单个涡轮机的结构负荷到风电场阵列中的湍流与大气边界层之间的相互作用的各种尺度上都起着基础性的作用。研讨会的重点将是促进对风电场内湍流的理解。它将在波多黎各的圣胡安举行。NSF的支持将帮助研究生和初级教师参加研讨会。拟议的研讨会将产生强大的科学和教育影响，因为它寻求提供一个独特的跨学科环境，以确定当前的问题和与湍流在下一个四分之一世纪风能中的作用相关的新挑战。研讨会将汇集学生和教师专家，使用包括建模、实验和模拟在内的一系列方法讨论最新的湍流/风能研究。研究生和初级研究人员的积极参与将促使下一代科学家/工程师解决这些领域的问题；并制定战略和新倡议，以应对剩余挑战，实现实现气候目标所需的雄心勃勃的目标。同行评议的投稿将通过《可再生能源与可持续能源杂志》上的专题卷收集。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Meeting global warming targets requires a roughly three-fold increase in wind energy installation by 2030. Achieving this growth will require a rapid increase in the number, size and capacity of wind farms and installations in locations and operation under conditions that will push the limits of our current understanding. The goal of the proposed symposium is to bring the wind energy and turbulence communities together to discuss the advances in wind farm science needed to meet these challenges. Close interaction among these communities is critical in this regard, as fluid turbulence plays a fundamental role in wind farms over scales ranging from blade aerodynamics and structural loading of individual turbines to the interactions between the turbulent flow in the wind farm array and the atmospheric boundary layer. The symposium will focus on advancing the understanding of turbulence in wind farms. It will be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The NSF support will aid in costs for graduate students and junior faculty to attend the symposium.The proposed symposium will have strong scientific and educational impacts as it seeks to provide a unique cross-disciplinary environment for identifying the current issues and new challenges associated with the role of turbulence in wind energy for the next quarter century. The symposium will bring together students and faculty experts to discuss state-of-the-art turbulence/wind energy research using a range of approaches including modeling, experiments, and simulations. Active participation of graduate students and junior researchers will engage the next generation of scientists/engineers to tackle problems in these areas; and to develop strategies and new initiatives for addressing the remaining challenges to reaching the ambitious goals needed to meet climate goals. Peer-reviewed contributions will be collected through a special topics volume in the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.