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年将风能装置增加大约三倍。要实现这一增长，就需要迅速增加风力发电场的数量、规模和容量，并在一定的地点和条件下运行，这将突破我们目前的理解极限。提议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，这些群落之间的密切相互作用是至关重要的，因为流体湍流在风电场中扮演着重要的角色，从单个涡轮机的叶片空气动力学和结构载荷到风电场阵列中湍流与大气边界层之间的相互作用。研讨会将集中讨论如何提高对风电场湍流的理解。会议将在波多黎各的圣胡安举行。美国国家科学基金会将资助研究生和初级教师参加研讨会的费用。拟建的研讨会将具有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，以确定与未来25年风能中湍流作用相关的当前问题和新挑战。研讨会将汇集学生和教师专家讨论最先进的湍流/风能研究使用一系列的方法，包括建模，实验和模拟。研究生和初级研究人员的积极参与将吸引下一代科学家/工程师来解决这些领域的问题；制定战略和新举措，以应对剩余的挑战，实现实现气候目标所需的宏伟目标。同行评议的贡献将通过《可再生能源与可持续能源杂志》的专题卷收集。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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.