Workshop: Wind Farms Underperformance & the National Wind Resource Center, Lubbock, Texas, Winter 2011

提案编号：1143990主要研究者：卡斯蒂略该奖项将为题为“风电场表现不佳的国家风力资源中心”的研讨会提供支持。“国家风力资源中心（NWRC）与美国、欧洲和澳大利亚的合作伙伴合作，将于2012年2月在德克萨斯理工大学举办为期两天的研讨会。风力发电场的性能不佳可以通过对不同尺度的风力涡轮机阵列上湍流作用的基本理解来解决，包括阵列中单个叶片的性能，以及它们之间的相互作用。 为了促进对这些问题的基本理解，研讨会的目标是：1）促进美国、欧洲、拉丁美洲和亚洲在风能表现不佳方面的国际合作; 2）确定风电场表现不佳的主要紧迫问题; 3）通过与工业界和国家实验室合作促进技术转让，4）展示风能行业所面临的基础知识和性能问题之间的联系; 5）提供指标，更广泛的影响预计美国和国际参与者之间建立的联系机构，行业和美国国家实验室将导致学生/教师访问，并最终，合作研究项目。 风能的未来将部分取决于受过多学科知识和领导技能培训的研究生，这些知识和技能是在这一新兴领域取得成功所必需的。 为了应对这一挑战，一个由风能领域领导者组成的国际团队将开展一系列关于风能表现不佳的教育活动。 该研讨会的目标是有超过50%的学生参与者来自代表性不足的群体。 主要活动将包括讲座、小组讨论、非正式小组讨论和海报会议。 将涵盖的主题包括风能设计和布局优化，风能的经济性，海上风能，风能阵列，先进的叶片设计对风能性能的影响。 这些信息还将用于编写风能课程材料，以提高这一领域的教学质量，讲座的水平和内容将被设计为永久记录。 讲座的演讲和录像将在西北地区妇女资源中心的网站上提供，并将通过一篇介绍美国和欧洲讲习班主要成果的文章传播。

Proposal Number: 1143990Principal Investigator: CastilloThis award will provide support for the workshop titled "Wind Farms Underperformance & the National Wind Resource Center." The National Wind Resource Center (NWRC), in collaboration with its partners in the United States, Europe and Australia, will offer the two-day workshop at Texas Tech University in February of 2012.The underperformance of wind energy farms can be addressed by fundamental understanding of the role of turbulence on wind turbine arrays at different scales, including the performance of single blades in an array, as well as their wake-to-wake interactions. In order to advance fundamental understanding of these issues, the objectives of the workshop are to 1) Promote international collaborations between the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia in wind energy underperformance; 2) Identify major pressing questions on wind farm underperformance; 3) Promote technology transfer by means of collaborations with industry and national laboratories, 4) Demonstrate the connection between fundamental knowledge and performance issues faced by the wind energy industry; 5) Provide metrics for in-flow characterization that plays a role in wind farm underperformance.Broader ImpactsIt is expected that contacts established between participants from US and international institutions, industry, and US national laboratories will lead to student/faculty visits, and ultimately, collaborative research projects. The future of wind energy will depend in part on graduate students trained with the multi-disciplinary knowledge and leadership skills needed to be successful in this emerging field. To address this challenge, an international team of leaders in the wind energy field will conduct a series of educational activities on wind energy underperformance. The workshop will aim to have more than 50% of student participants from underrepresented groups. Key activities will consist of lectures, panel discussions, informal group discussions, and poster sessions. Topics to be covered include wind energy design and layout optimization, economics of wind energy, offshore wind energy, wind energy arrays, and the effect of advanced blade design on wind energy performance. This information will also be made available to develop wind energy course materials in order to improve the quality of instruction in this field.The level and content of the lectures will be designed to serve as a permanent record. The presentations and video recordings from the lectures will be available on the website of the NWRC, and will also be disseminated through an article addressing key outcomes from workshops in USA and Europe.