Fernando Porté-Agel
EPFL ENAC IIE WIRE
GR B2 400 (Bâtiment GR)
Station 2
1015 Lausanne
+41 21 693 27 26
+41 21 693 61 38
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Fields of expertise
Environmental Fluid Mechanics
Turbulence
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Wind Energy
Turbulence
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Wind Energy
Biography
FERNANDO PORTÉ AGELProfessor
Director, Wind Engineering and Renewable Energy Laboratory (WIRE)
School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC)
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
e-mail: fernando.porte-agel@epfl.ch
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Environmental fluid mechanics. Computational fluid dynamics. Atmospheric boundary layers. Turbulence. Large-eddy simulation. Wind energy. Wind engineering. Renewable energy.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. 1999 Johns Hopkins University, Environmental Engineering
M.Sc. 1995 Hydrologic Engineering, IHE - Delft, The Netherlands
B.S. 1992 Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Spain
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2010-present: Full Professor, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
2005-2009: Associate Professor, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory and Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
2000-2005: Assistant Professor, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
McKnight Presidential Fellow (2006-2009), University of Minnesota, USA
McKnight Land-Grant Professorship (2003-2005), University of Minnesota, USA
NASA Young Investigator Award (2001-2004), USA
NSF CAREER Award (2001-2006), (Division of Earth Sciences Hydrological Sciences), USA
Outstanding Student Paper Award: Hydrology Section, Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union; San Francisco, 1998.
Research Award (1995-1997): La Caixa fellowship program; Barcelona, Spain.
Research Award (1993-1995): Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs fellowship.
Research Award (1990-1993): Spanish Civil Engineering Association.
Publications
Infoscience publications
Influence of thrust coefficient on the wake of a wind turbine: A numerical and analytical study
Renewable Energy. 2024. DOI : 10.1016/j.renene.2024.122194.Effect of hills on wind turbine flow and power efficiency: A large-eddy simulation study
Physics of Fluids. 2024. DOI : https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0226544.Influence of incoming turbulent scales on the wind turbine wake: A large-eddy simulation study
Physics of Fluids. 2024. DOI : 10.1063/5.0222372.Evolution of Turbulent Boundary Conditions on the Surface of Large Barchan Dunes: Anomalies in Aerodynamic Roughness and Shear Velocity, Aeolian Threshold, and the Role of Dune Skewness
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 2024. DOI : 10.1029/2023JF007599.Potential of Wake Scaling Techniques for Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine Wake Prediction
Energies. 2024. DOI : 10.3390/en17174527.Can we trust explainable artificial intelligence in wind power forecasting?
Applied Energy. 2024. DOI : 10.1016/j.apenergy.2024.124273.A hybrid physics-based and data-driven model for intra-day and day-ahead wind power forecasting considering a drastically expanded predictor search space
Applied Energy. 2024. DOI : 10.1016/j.apenergy.2024.123375.Influence of wind direction on flow over a cliff and its interaction with a wind turbine wake
Physical Review Fluids. 2024. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevFluids.9.064604.Power performance of a model floating wind turbine subjected to cyclic pitch motion: A wind tunnel study
2024. The Science of Making Torque from Wind (TORQUE 2024), Florence, Italy, May 29-31, 2024. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/2767/9/092065.The effect of nacelle-to-rotor size on the wake of a miniature wind turbine
The Science of Making Torque from Wind (TORQUE 2024), Florence, Italy, May 29-31, 2024.An improved statistical wake meandering model
Torque 2024, Florence, Italy, May 29-31, 2024.Power performance of a model floating wind turbine subjected to cyclic pitch motion: A wind tunnel study
The Science of Making Torque from Wind (TORQUE 2024), Florence, Italy, May 29-31, 2024.Solar-assisted clean steam generator, a cleaner production approach for sustainable healthcare facilities
Journal Of Cleaner Production. 2024. DOI : 10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.142132.Wind turbine wake superposition under pressure gradient
Physics of Fluids. 2024. DOI : 10.1063/5.0185542.Theoretical and numerical studies of wind turbine wakes in the atmospheric boundary layer
Lausanne, EPFL, 2024. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10346.The effect of nacelle-to-rotor size on the wake of a miniature wind turbine
2024. The Science of Making Torque from Wind (TORQUE 2024), Florence, Italy, May 29-31, 2024. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/2767/9/092057.An improved statistical wake meandering model
2024. Torque 2024, Florence, May 29-31, 2024. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/2767/9/092048.Enhancing Wind Farm Performance through Axial Induction and Tilt Control: Insights from Wind Tunnel Experiments
Energies. 2024. DOI : 10.3390/en17010203.Towards an improved understanding of wind turbine wakes in complex terrain
Lausanne, EPFL, 2024. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10243.An improved analytical framework for flow prediction inside and downstream of wind farms
Renewable Energy. 2024. DOI : 10.1016/j.renene.2024.120251.Towards optimal design and control of wind farms
International symposium on offshore wind, Kyushu University, Japan, December 5, 2023.Wind farm power density optimization according to the area size using a novel self-adaptive genetic algorithm
Renewable Energy. 2023. DOI : 10.1016/j.renene.2023.119524.Effect of roof fence shape on the performance of a roof-mounted horizontal axis wind turbine
2023A wind tunnel study on cyclic yaw control: Power performance and wake characteristics
Energy Conversion and Management. 2023. DOI : 10.1016/j.enconman.2023.117445.Including the turbulent Schmidt number in the dynamic wake meandering model
Wind Energy Science Conference 2023, Glasgow, UK, May 23-25, 2023.A review of recent developments of physics-based wind turbine wake expansion models
Wind Energy Science Conference 2023, Glasgow, Scotland, 23-26 May 2023.An experimental and analytical study of wind turbine wakes under pressure gradient
Physics of Fluids. 2023. DOI : 10.1063/5.0145043.Power Production and Blade Fatigue of a Wind Turbine Array Subjected to Active Yaw Control
Energies. 2023. DOI : 10.3390/en16062542.A wind tunnel study on cyclic yaw control in a wind farm model
Wind Energy Science Conference (WESC 2023), Glasgow, UK, May 23-25, 2023.Cross-code verification of non-neutral ABL and single wind turbine wake modelling in LES
2023. 8th Wake Conference, Visby, SWEDEN, Jun 20-22, 2023. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/2505/1/012009.Characterization of wind turbine flow through nacelle-mounted lidars: a review
Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering. 2023. DOI : 10.3389/fmech.2023.1261017.Wind Turbine Wakes in Active Yaw Control: Numerical and Theoretical Studies
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9495.Holistic scan optimization of nacelle-mounted lidars for inflow and wake characterization at the RAAW and AWAKEN field campaigns
2023. 8th Wake Conference, Visby, SWEDEN, Jun 20-22, 2023. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/2505/1/012048.A New Streamwise Scaling for Wind Turbine Wake Modeling in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Energies. 2022. DOI : 10.3390/en15249477.Large-eddy simulation of a wind-turbine array subjected to active yaw control
Wind Energy Science. 2022. DOI : 10.5194/wes-7-2215-2022."An experimental investigation of a roof-mounted horizontal-axis wind turbine in an idealized urban environment"
2022.A Gradient Tensor-Based Subgrid-Scale Parameterization for Large-Eddy Simulations of Stratified Shear Layers Using the Weather Research and Forecasting Model
Monthly Weather Review. 2022. DOI : 10.1175/MWR-D-21-0217.1.An Analytical Model for Wind Turbine Wakes under Pressure Gradient
Energies. 2022. DOI : 10.3390/en15155345.A physics-based model for wind turbine wake expansion in the atmospheric boundary layer
Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2022. DOI : 10.1017/jfm.2022.443.Wind farm layout and unconstrained hub height optimization using genetic algorithms applied to different power densities
Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 2022. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/2265/4/042049.An experimental investigation of a roof-mounted horizontal-axis wind turbine in an idealized urban environment
Renewable Energy. 2022. DOI : 10.1016/j.renene.2022.05.035.Field measurements of wake meandering at a utility-scale wind turbine with nacelle-mounted Doppler lidars
Wind Energy Science. 2022. DOI : 10.5194/wes-7-185-2022.Large-eddy Simulation of a Wind-turbine Array subjected to Active Yaw Control
2022."A physics-based model for wind turbine wake expansion in the atmospheric boundary layer"
2022.Wind turbine wakes on escarpments: A wind-tunnel study
Renewable Energy. 2022. DOI : 10.1016/j.renene.2021.09.102.Large-Eddy Simulation of Wind Turbine Flows: A New Evaluation of Actuator Disk Models - Dataset
2022.A Simple Mixing-Length Model for Urban Canopy Flows
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2021. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-021-00650-0.Wind Farm Area Shape Optimization Using Newly Developed Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms
Energies. 2021. DOI : 10.3390/en14144185.Large-Eddy Simulation of Wind Turbine Flows: A New Evaluation of Actuator Disk Models
Energies. 2021. DOI : 10.3390/en14133745.Experimental investigation and analytical modelling of active yaw control for wind farm power optimization
Renewable Energy. 2021. DOI : 10.1016/j.renene.2021.02.059.Atmospheric Boundary Layer Interactions with Large Wind Farms: A Large Eddy Simulation Study
Wind Energy Science Conference 2021 (WESC 2021), Hannover, Germany (Online), May 25-28, 2021.Doppler LiDAR observations of wake meandering at a utility scale wind turbine
Wind Energy Science Conference (WESC 2021), [online] Hannover, Germany [online] Hannover, Germany, 25 - 28 May 2021.The effect of surface roughness on the wake of a wind turbine sited on a cliff
Wind Energy Science Conference 2021 (WESC 2021), Hannover, Germany (Online), May 25-28, 2021.Wind-turbine wake expansion in the atmospheric boundary layer; A physics-based analytical model
Wind Energy Science Conference 2021 (WESC 2021), Hannover, Germany (Online), May 25-28, 2021.Numerical Weather Prediction and Artificial Neural Network Coupling for Wind Energy Forecast
Energies. 2021. DOI : 10.3390/en14020338.Wake flows in an experimentally-modeled offshore wind farm
Wind Energy Science Conference - WESC 2021, (web conference) Hannover, Germany, May 25-28, 2021.Numerical Framework for Aerodynamic Characterization of Wind Turbine Airfoils: Application to Miniature Wind Turbine WiRE-01
Energies. 2020. DOI : 10.3390/en13215612.Lidar measurements of yawed-wind-turbine wakes: characterization and validation of analytical models
Wind Energy Science. 2020. DOI : 10.5194/wes-5-1253-2020.Three-dimensional wind-turbine wake characterization via tomographic particle-image velocimetry
The Science of Making Torque from Wind (TORQUE 2020), Delft, Netherlands (Online), 2020-09-29.Multi-rotor Wind Farm Layout Optimization
2020. The Science of Making Torque from Wind (TORQUE 2020), Delft, Netherlands (online), September 30, 2020. p. 1 - 11, 032014. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/1618/3/032014.Power Maximization and Fatigue-Load Mitigation in a Wind-turbine Array by Active Yaw Control: an LES Study
2020. The Science of Making Torque from Wind (TORQUE 2020), Delft, Netherland, September 28, 2020. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/1618/4/042036.A point vortex transportation model for yawed wind turbine wakes
Journal Of Fluid Mechanics. 2020. DOI : 10.1017/jfm.2020.123.A momentum-conserving wake superposition method for wind farm power prediction
Journal Of Fluid Mechanics. 2020. DOI : 10.1017/jfm.2020.77.Effect of aspect ratio on vertical-axis wind turbine wakes
Journal Of Fluid Mechanics. 2020. DOI : 10.1017/jfm.2020.93.A new wake model and comparison of eight algorithms for layout optimization of wind farms in complex terrain
Applied Energy. 2020. DOI : 10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.114189.Wind-Turbine and Wind-Farm Flows: A Review
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2020. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-019-00473-0.Three-dimensional wind-turbine wake characterization via tomographic particle-image velocimetry
2020. The Science of Making Torque from Wind (TORQUE 2020), Netherlands (Online), 28th September - 2nd October, 2020. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/1618/6/062045.Characterization of Wind Turbine Wakes with Nacelle-Mounted Doppler LiDARs and Model Validation in the Presence of Wind Veer
Remote Sensing. 2019. DOI : 10.3390/rs11192247.Effect of wind veer on wind turbine wakes measured with nacelle-mounted LiDARs
Wind Energy Science Conference 2019, Cork, Ireland, June 17-20, 2019.Multi-Objective Wind Farm Layout Optimization with unconstrained Area Shape
Wind Energy Science Conference 2019 (WESC 2019), Cork, Ireland, 16-20 June 2019.Multirotor UAV-based platform for the measurement of atmospheric turbulence: validation and signature detection of tip vortices of wind turbine blades.
Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 2019. DOI : 10.1175/JTECH-D-17-0220.1.Wind Farm Layout Optimization: Evolutionary strategies using the EPFL Gaussian wake model
1st Swiss Wind Energy R&D Forum, Rapperswill, Switzerland, May 15, 2019.Wind Energy Prediction in Highly Complex Terrain by Computational Fluid Dynamics
Energies. 2019. DOI : 10.3390/en12071311.A multiscale modelling framework for wind power forecasting over complex terrain
Wind Energy Science Conference 2019, Cork, IRELAND, 17-20 June 2019.Wind Power Forecasting: Physics-based Modelling and Multiscale Simulation
1st Swiss Wind Energy R&D Forum, Rapperswil, Switzerland, 2019-05-15.Large-eddy Simulation of Yawed Wind Turbine Wakes: Comparisons with Wind Tunnel Measurements and Analytical Models
Wind Energy Science Conference 2019, Cork, Ireland, 17-20 June 2019.Wind farm power optimization via yaw angle control: A wind tunnel study
Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy. 2019. DOI : 10.1063/1.5077038.Large-Eddy Simulation of Yawed Wind-Turbine Wakes: Comparisons with Wind Tunnel Measurements and Analytical Wake Models
Energies. 2019. DOI : 10.3390/en12234574.Wind Turbine Wakes in Directionally Varying Wind Shears
2019. Progress in Turbulence VIII. p. 311 - 316. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-030-22196-6_49.Realistic Wind Farm Layout Optimization through Genetic Algorithms Using a Gaussian Wake Model
Energies. 2018. DOI : 10.3390/en11123268.KEYNOTE: Towards an Urban Resilience: Tools and Techniques
CFD Applications in Architecture and Urban Aerodynamics
Analysis of control-oriented wake modeling tools using lidar field results
Wind Energy Science. 2018. DOI : 10.5194/wes-3-819-2018.Wind Farm Layout Optimization using Genetic Algorithms with a Gaussian Wake Model
SCCER-FURIES 2018, Swiss Tech Center, 2018-10-22.Shifts in wind energy potential following land-use driven vegetation dynamics in complex terrain
Science of The Total Environment. 2018. DOI : 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.05.083.Wind turbine wakes over hills
Society of Engineering Science (SES) Technical Meeting, Madrid, Spain, October 10-12, 2018.KEYNOTE: Atmospheric turbulence effects on wind farm aerodynamics
Society of Engineering Science (SES) Technical Meeting, Madrid, Spain, October 10-12, 2018.Different aspects of wind turbine interaction with turbulent boundary-layer flows: A wind tunnel study
Society of Engineering Science (SES) Technical Meeting, Madrid, Spain, October 10-12, 2018.A Simple Physically-Based Model for Wind-Turbine Wake Growth in a Turbulent Boundary Layer
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2018. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-018-0366-2.Evaluation and Optimization of Multi-scale Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for Architecture, Urban planning, Civil and Environmental Engineering Applications
Wind turbine wakes over hills
Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2018. DOI : 10.1017/jfm.2018.653.Wind Assessment in Complex Urban Environments: Case Study of La Défense District
Incoming Wind and Wake Measurements of a Single 2.5 MW Wind Turbine Using Two Nacelle-Mounted Wind LiDARs for Analytical Wake Model Validation
23rd Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Oklahoma City, OK, USA, 11-15 June 2018.Using a Virtual Lidar Approach to Assess the Accuracy of the Volumetric Reconstruction of a Wind Turbine Wake
Remote Sensing. 2018. DOI : 10.3390/rs10050721.Wind Turbine Wake Characterization with Nacelle-Mounted Wind Lidars for Analytical Wake Model Validation
Remote Sensing. 2018. DOI : 10.3390/rs10050668.Evaluating the modulated gradient model in large eddy simulation of channel flow with OpenFOAM
JOURNAL OF TURBULENCE. 2018. DOI : 10.1080/14685248.2018.1483078.An Analytical Model for the Effect of Vertical Wind Veer on Wind Turbine Wakes
Energies. 2018. DOI : 10.3390/en11071838.A model for the effect of pressure gradient on turbulent axisymmetric wakes
Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2018. DOI : 10.1017/jfm.2017.864.Wind turbine wakes: exploring the underexplored : vertical-axis wind turbines and topography
Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8545.Turbulent Wake Induced By a Steep Topography in Boundary-Layer Flows
23rd Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Oklahoma City, OK, USA, June 11-15, 2018.Experimental investigation of vertical-axis wind-turbine wakes in boundary layer flow
Renewable Energy Bulletin A. 2018. DOI : 10.1016/j.renene.2017.10.105.Variability of wind turbine noise over a diurnal cycle
Renewable Energy. 2018. DOI : 10.1016/J.RENENE.2018.03.086.Innovative measurement techniques for atmospheric turbulence and wind energy
Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8536.Optimal Control Strategies of Seasonal Storage Devices for District Energy Management
2018Anomalous shear velocity at the brink of a barchan dune
ICAR 2018, Bordeaux, France, June 25-29, 2018.Development of a real-time wind power forecasting model
5th Annual Conference of the Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research on Future Swiss Electrical Infrastructure, Lausanne, Switzerland, October 22, 2018.Counter-rotating vortex pairs in the wake of a vertical axis wind turbine
EGU General Assembly 2017, Vienna, Austria, April 23-28, 2017.Evaluation of non-eddy viscosity subgrid-scale models in stratified turbulence using direct numerical simulations
European Journal Of Mechanics B-Fluids. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.euromechflu.2017.03.009.Large-Eddy Simulation of Atmospheric Boundary-Layer Flow Through a Wind Farm Sited on Topography
Boundary Layer Meteorology. 2017. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-016-0216-z.Interaction of atmospheric boundary layer flow with wind turbines : theoretical and experimental studies
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7529.Turbulent planar wakes under pressure gradient conditions
Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2017. DOI : 10.1017/jfm.2017.649.Wind Turbine Wake Mitigation through Blade Pitch Offset
Energies. 2017. DOI : 10.3390/en10060757.On the contribution of mesoscale and micro-scale CFD to urban environments.
Design modelling symposium, Paris, France, 18-22, 2017.Simulation of airflow in urban environments using coupled mesoscale and microscale models: a case study of the EPFL campus
Wind Energy Science Conference 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 26-29, 2017.A Modulated-Gradient Parametrization for the Large-Eddy Simulation of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Using the Weather Research and Forecasting Model
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2017. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-017-0287-5.A New Miniature Wind Turbine for Wind Tunnel Experiments. Part I: Design and Performance
Energies. 2017. DOI : 10.3390/en10070908.Flow Adjustment Inside and Around Large Finite-Size Wind Farms
Energies. 2017. DOI : 10.3390/en10122164.Flow adjustment inside large finite-size wind farms approaching the infinite wind farm regime
EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 2017.Wind tunnel study of the wind turbine interaction with a boundary-layer flow: Upwind region, turbine performance, and wake region
Physics of Fluids. 2017. DOI : 10.1063/1.4984078.A New Miniature Wind Turbine for Wind Tunnel Experiments. Part II: Wake Structure and Flow Dynamics
Energies. 2017. DOI : 10.3390/en10070923.Assessment of RANS turbulence models in urban environments: CFD simulation of airflow around idealized high-rise morphologies.
Humanizing Digital Reality; Springer, 2017. p. 259 - 269.Tall and old Amazonian forests are more resilient to precipitation variability
2017Development and tuning of a coupled mesoscale/microscale model for wind forecasting at the Juvent wind farm
Wind Energy Science Conference 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 26-29, 2017.Wind Energy: Atmosphere to Electrons
SCCER School 2017 – Shaping the Energy Transition, Engelberg, Switzerland, October 18-20, 2017.Analytical modeling of turbine wakes in yawed conditions
European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria, April 17-22,2016.Influence of the Coriolis force on the structure and evolution of wind turbine wakes
Physical Review Fluids. 2016. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevFluids.1.063701.An evaluation of recently developed RANS-based turbulence models for flow over a two-dimensional block subjected to different mesh structures and grid resolutions
EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 2016.Large-Eddy Simulation of the Wake Flow Inside and Downwind of a Large Finite-Size Wind Farm
22nd Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, June 20–24, 2016.Analytical Modeling of Wind Farms: A New Approach for Power Prediction
Energies. 2016. DOI : 10.3390/en9090741.Large-eddy simulation of flow and scalar dispersion in rural-to-urban transition regions
International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow. 2016. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2016.04.004.Effect of Large Finite-Size Wind Farms and Their Wakes on Atmospheric Boundary Layer Dynamics
EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 17-22, 2016.Wake flow in a wind farm during a diurnal cycle
Journal of Turbulence. 2016. DOI : 10.1080/14685248.2015.1127379.Volumetric LiDAR Scanning of a Wind Turbine Wake and Comparison with a 3D Analytical Wake Model
22nd Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, June 20-24, 2016.Prediction and Comparison of low-Reynolds Airfoil Performance
2016A Large-eddy Simulation Study of Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Wakes in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 17–22, 2016.Vertical axis wind turbine wake in boundary layer flow in a wind tunnel
EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 18-22, 2016.A simple one-dimensional model for urban canopy flows
EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 2016.A Large-Eddy Simulation Study of Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Wakes in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Energies. 2016. DOI : 10.3390/en9050366.Experimental and theoretical study of wind turbine wakes in yawed conditions
Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2016. DOI : 10.1017/jfm.2016.595.98 Virtual Wind LiDAR Experiments using LES data: Examples of the Limitations of LiDAR Profilers and Scanners
22nd Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, June 20-24, 2016.Volumetric LiDAR scanning of a wind turbine wake and comparison with a 3D analytical wake model
EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 2016., Vienna, April 17–22, 2016.Data Processing of tomoPIV measurements of a wind turbine in a wind tunnel
2016Intercomparison of Terrain-Following Coordinate Transformation and Immersed Boundary Methods for Large-Eddy Simulation of Wind Fields over Complex Terrain
22nd Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 20-24, 2016.Intercomparison of Terrain-Following Coordinate Transformation and Immersed Boundary Methods for Large-Eddy Simulation of Wind Fields over Complex Terrain
Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 2016. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/753/8/082008.Validation of the coupled mesoscale/microscale simulation for the Juvent wind farm
3rd Annual Conference of the Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research on Future Swiss Electrical Infrastructure, Lausanne, Switzerland, December 2, 2016.Intercomparison of terrain-following coordinate transformation and immersed boundary methods in large-eddy simulation of wind fields over complex terrain
The Science of Making Torque from Wind (TORQUE 2016), Munich, German, October 5-7, 2016.Numerical wind power prediction in the Swiss Jura mountains and validation via wind farm data
3rd Annual Conference of the Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research on Future Swiss Electrical Infrastructure, Lausanne, Switzerland, December 2, 2016.Micro-scale modelling framework for wind energy prediction
2nd Frontiers in Computational Physics: Energy Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland, June 3-5, 2015.Large-eddy simulation of the diurnal variation of wake flows in a finite-size wind farm
2015. Wake Conference, Visby, Sweden, June 9-11, 2015. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/625/1/012031.Adjustment of Turbulent Boundary-Layer Flow to Idealized Urban Surfaces: A Large-Eddy Simulation Study
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2015. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-015-0004-1.Large-eddy simulation of atmospheric boundary layer flow and passive scalar dispersion over idealized urban surfaces
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2015, Vienna, Austria, April 12–17, 2015.Large-eddy simulation of very-large-scale motions in atmospheric boundary-layer flows
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2015, Vienna, Austria, April 12-17, 2015.Wind profiling with LiDARs: detection of boundary layer inhomogeneity and uncertainty analysis
EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 12–17, 2015.A wind-tunnel investigation of wind-turbine wakes in yawed conditions
2015. Wake conference, Visby, Sweden, 9–11 June, 2015. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/625/1/012014.Wind profiling with LiDARs: detection of boundary layer inhomogeneity and uncertainty analysis
EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 12–17, 2015.Wind-tunnel study of the wake behind a vertical axis wind turbine in a boundary layer flow using stereoscopic particle image velocimetry
2015. Wake Conference, Visby, Sweden, June 9-11, 2015. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/625/1/012012.Modeling turbine wakes and power losses within a wind farm using LES: An application to the Horns Rev offshore wind farm
Renewable Energy. 2015. DOI : 10.1016/j.renene.2014.06.019.Keynote: Interaction between wind farms and the atmospheric boundary layer: simulations and experiments
WindFarms 2015: Large wind-power plants: interaction, control and integration, Leuven, Belgium, July 8-10, 2015.A new analytical model for wind farm power prediction
2015. Wake Conference, Visby, SWEDEN, JUN 09-11, 2015. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/625/1/012039.Wind tunnel study of a vertical axis wind turbine in a turbulent boundary layer flow
European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 12-17, 2015.Complex turbulent flow in the atmospheric boundary layer: Lab and field measurements of embedded canopy wakes
American Geophysical Union 2015 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, United States, December 14–18 , 2015.A wind-tunnel investigation of wind-turbine wakes in different yawed and loading conditions
EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria.A new wind-farm parameterization for large-scale atmospheric models
EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 12-17, 2015.A wind-tunnel investigation of wind-turbine wakes in yawed conditions
Wake conference, Visby, Sweden.Data-driven Reduced Order Model for prediction of wind turbine wakes
2015. Wake Conference, Visby, SWEDEN, JUN 09-11, 2015. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/625/1/012009.A new wind-farm parameterization for large-scale atmospheric models
Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy. 2015. DOI : 10.1063/1.4907600.Scale Model Evaluation and Optimization of Sodar Acoustic Baffles
Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 2015. DOI : 10.1175/JTECH-D-13-00253.1.A new analytical model for wind farm power prediction
EGU 2015, Vienna, April 12 – 17, 2015.On the Impact of Wind Farms on a Convective Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2015. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-015-0049-1.On the influence of Coriolis forces on the structure and evolution of wind-turbine wakes
WindFarms 2015: Large wind-power plants: interaction, control and integration, Leuven, Belgium, July 8-10, 2015.Influence of atmospheric stability on wind-turbine wakes: A large-eddy simulation study
Physics of Fluids. 2015. DOI : 10.1063/1.4913695.Large-eddy Simulation of Atmospheric Boundary-layer Flow through a Wind Farm Sited on Complex Terrain
EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 12-17, 2015.Large-eddy Simulation of Atmospheric Boundary-layer Flow through a Wind Farm Sited on Complex Terrain
WindFarms 2015: Large wind-power plants: interaction, control and integration, Leuven, Belgium, July 8-10, 2015.Large-Eddy Simulation of Very-Large-Scale Motions in the Neutrally Stratified Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Boundary Layer Meteorology. 2015. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-015-0006-z.Instability of wind turbine wakes immersed in the atmospheric boundary layer
2015. Wake Conference 2015. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/625/1/012034.Large Eddy Simulation of Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Wakes
Energies. 2014. DOI : 10.3390/en7020890.Forecasting tools of renewable energy production
2014 Annual Conference of the Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research on Future Swiss Electrical Infrastructure, Lausanne, Switzerland, December 15, 2014.Large eddy simulation of vertical axis wind turbine wakes
21st Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Leeds, United Kingdom, 9-13 June 2014.The effect of atmospheric stability on wind-turbine wakes: A large-eddy simulation study
2014. The Science of Making Torque from Wind 2014 (TORQUE 2014), Copenhagen, Denmark, June 18-20, 2014. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/524/1/012138.Large-eddy simulation of atmospheric boundary layer flows over surface transitions from flat to idealized urban terrains
21st Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Leeds,UK, June 9-13, 2014.Volumetric Lidar Scanning of Wind Turbine Wakes under Convective and Neutral Atmospheric Stability Regimes
Journal Of Atmospheric And Oceanic Technology. 2014. DOI : 10.1175/Jtech-D-13-00252.1.Optimization of Wind Farm Performance Based on Yaw Angle Control
Eurotech meeting, Munich, Germany, September, 2014.Canopy wake measurements using multiple scanning wind LiDARs
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2014, Vienna, Austria, 27 April – 02 May 2014.Wind variability and sheltering effects on measurements and modeling of air-water exchange for a small lake
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2014, Vienna, Austria, 27 April – 02 May 2014.Effects of Positive versus Negative Yaw Angles on Wind-Turbine Performance: An Application of BEM Theory
EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 27 - May 02, 2014.3D Turbulence Measurements Using Three Synchronous Wind Lidars: Validation against Sonic Anemometry
Journal Of Atmospheric And Oceanic Technology. 2014. DOI : 10.1175/Jtech-D-13-00206.1.Volumetric scans of wind turbine wakes performed with three simultaneous wind LiDARs under different atmospheric stability regimes
The Science of Making Torque from Wind 2014 (TORQUE 2014), Copenhagen, Denmark, June 18-20, 2014.Wake flow variability in a wind farm throughout a diurnal cycle
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2014, Vienna, Austria, April 27 - May 02, 2014.Optimization of Wind Farm Performance Based on Yaw Angle Control
21st Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Leeds, United Kingdom, June 9-13, 2014.Influence of atmospheric stability on wind-turbine wakes: A large-eddy simulation study
21st Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Leeds, UK, June 9-13, 2014.Wind-tunnel experiments of turbulent flow over a surface-mounted 2-D block in a thermally-stratified boundary layer
67th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, San Francisco, California, USA, 23-25 November, 2014.Mean and turbulent kinetic energy budgets inside and above very large wind farms under conventionally-neutral condition
Renewable Energy. 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.renene.2014.03.050.The effect of atmospheric stability on wind-turbine wakes: A large-eddy simulation study
The Science of Making Torque from Wind, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 17-20, 2014.An intercomparison of subgrid models for large-eddy simulation of katabatic flows
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 2014. DOI : 10.1002/qj.2212.Large eddy simulation of vertical axis wind turbine wakes
European Geosciences Union, General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 27 April - 02 May, 2014.Effects of land-surface heterogeneity on turbulent transport of momentum and heat: wind-tunnel studies
21st Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Leeds, United Kingdom, June 9-13, 2014.Wind-tunnel experiments of thermally-stratified turbulent boundary layer flow over a wall-mounted 2-D block
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2014, Vienna, Austria, 27 April – 02 May 2014.Interaction of the atmospheric boundary layer with land surface heterogeneity and wind turbines : numerical and analytical studies
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6407.A New Analytical Model For Wind-Turbine Wakes
Renewable Energy. 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.renene.2014.01.002.Optimization of Wind Farm Performance Based on Yaw Angle Control
European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria, April 27- May 2, 2014.On the development of a dynamic non-linear closure for large-eddy simulation of the atmospheric boundary layer
European Geosciences Union, General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 27 April - 02 May 2014.Canopy-wake dynamics and wind sheltering effects on Earth surface fluxes
Environmental Fluid Mechanics. 2014. DOI : 10.1007/s10652-013-9313-4.3D turbulence measurements in inhomogeneous boundary layers with three wind LiDARs
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2014, Vienna, Austria, 27 April – 02 May 2014.Adjustment of a turbulent boundary layer flow to idealized urban surfaces: A large-eddy simulation study
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2014, Vienna, Austria, April 27 - May 2, 2014.Effects of Positive versus Negative Yaw Angles on Wind-Turbine Performance: An Application of BEM Theory
21st Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Leeds, United Kingdom, June 9-13, 2014.On the Development of a Dynamic Non-linear Closure for Large-Eddy Simulation of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2014. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-013-9906-y.Keynote: Wind-Turbine Aerodynamics
10th International ERCOFTAC Symposium on Engineering Turbulence Modelling and Measurements, Don Carlos Resort, Marbella, Spain, 17-19 September 2014.Effects of wind direction and wind farm layout on turbine wakes and power losses in wind farms: An LES study
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2014, Vienna, Austria, April 27 - May 02, 2014.An analytical 1-D model for vertical momentum and energy flux through a fully developed wind farm
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2014, Vienna, Austria, 27 April – 02 May 2014.Volumetric scans of wind turbine wakes performed with three simultaneous wind LiDARs under different atmospheric stability regimes
2014. The Science of Making Torque from Wind 2014 (TORQUE 2014), Copenhagen, Denmark, June 18-20, 2014. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/524/1/012164.Very-large-scale motions in the neutral atmospheric boundary layer: a numerical study
21st Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Leeds, UK, June 9-13, 2014.Large eddy simulation of flows around a single dune
Kick-off Meeting on Microbial Stabilization of Sand Dunes, École Centrale de Paris, France, January 6, 2014.Large eddy simulation of very-large-scale motions in the neutrally stratified atmospheric boundary layer
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2014, Vienna, Austria, April 27 - May 02, 2014.Prediction of the hub vortex instability in a wind turbine wake: stability analysis with eddy-viscosity models calibrated on wind tunnel data
10th European Fluid Mechanics Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 14-18, 2014.Prediction of the hub vortex instability within wind turbine wakes and effects of the incoming wind and turbine aerodynamic characteristics
67th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, San Francisco, California, USA, 23-25 November, 2014.Prediction of the hub vortex instability in a wind turbine wake: stability analysis with eddy-viscosity models calibrated on wind tunnel data
Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2014. DOI : 10.1017/jfm.2014.263.A Numerical Study of the Effects of Wind Direction on Turbine Wakes and Power Losses in a Large Wind Farm
Energies. 2013. DOI : 10.3390/en6105297.Evaluation of subgrid-scale models in large-eddy simulation of flow past a two-dimensional block
International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow. 2013. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2013.06.007.Turbulent flow over a surface-mounted 2-D block in thermally-stratified boundary layers
American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, December 9-13.A new analytical model for wind-turbine wakes
International Conference on Aerodynamics of Offshore Wind Energy Systems and Wakes, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 17-19.Multi-resolution analysis as a tool for integrating wind and vegetation modeling over complex terrains
16th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, Leuven (Belgium), May 14-17, 2013.Modeling turbine wakes and power losses within a wind farm using LES: An application to the Horns Rev offshore wind farm
International Conference on Aerodynamics of Offshore Wind Energy Systems and Wakes, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 17-19.Canopy-wake dynamics: the failure of the constant flux layer
American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, USA, December 9-13.A canopy-type model for wind farm-atmosphere interaction
International Conference on Aerodynamics of Offshore Wind Energy Systems and Wakes, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 17-19.Interactions between large wind farms and the atmospheric boundary layer
Mechanics Day, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 23.An analytical canopy-type model for wind farm-atmosphere interaction
American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, USA, December 9-13.Development of a nonlinear subgrid model for large-eddy simulation of the atmospheric boundary layer
European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria, April 7-12.Wind sheltering effects on measurements and modeling of air-water interfacial fluxes
Aquatic Sciences Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, February 17-22.Experimental study of the impact of large-scale wind farms on land-atmosphere exchanges
European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria, April 7-12.Combined Immersed Boundary/Spectral Method for Large Eddy Simulation of Atmospheric Flows over Topography
EUROMECH Colloquium 549 on Immersed Boundary Methods, Leiden, The Netherlands, June 17-19, 2013.Modeling turbine wakes and power losses within the Horns Rev offshore wind farm using large-eddy simulation
Mechanics Day, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 23.The influence of static stability of the free atmosphere on the power extracted by a very large wind farm
International Conference on Aerodynamics of Offshore Wind Energy Systems and Wakes, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 17-19.Wind tunnel investigation of wind-turbine wakes
Mechanics Day, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 23.3D turbulence measurements using three intersecting Doppler LiDAR beams: validation against sonic anemometry
European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria, April 7-12, 2013.A canopy-type similarity model for wind farm optimization
European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria, April 7-12.A New Analytical Model for Wind-Turbine Wakes
European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria, April 7-12.Large-eddy simulation of flow past urban-like surfaces: A model validation study
European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria, April 7-12, 2013.An integrated approach for the study of wind turbine and atmospheric boundary layer interaction
North American Wind Energy Academy Symposium, Boulder, Colorado, USA, August 6-8.Wind-tunnel experiments of the interaction between atmospheric boundary layer flow and wind turbines
IEA Task 31 Wakebench Colloquium, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 20-21.Wake dynamics in the atmospheric boundary layer over complex terrain
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, 2013.Multiple-LiDAR measurements of wind turbine wakes: effect of the atmospheric stability
European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria, April 7-12.The influence of thermal stratification in the free atmosphere on the power extracted by a very large wind farm
European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria, April 7-12.On the impact of wind farms on a convective atmospheric boundary layer: A large-eddy simulation study
European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria, April 7-12.Modeling turbine wakes and power losses within the Horns Rev offshore wind farm using large-eddy simulation
European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria, April 7-12.Large-eddy simulation of flow through wind turbines and wind farms
Keynote Lecture at the RUZGEM 2013 Conference on Wind Energy Science, Ankara, Turkey, October 3-4.Introductory Speech
Mechanics Day, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 23.Atmospheric boundary layer separation scaling in the wake of heterogeneous canopies
European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria, April 7-12.Experimental study of the impact of large-scale wind farms on land-atmosphere exchanges
Environmental Research Letters. 2013. DOI : 10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/015002.Large-Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Boundary Layer Flow through Wind Turbines and Wind Farms
Lausanne, EPFL, 2013. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-5788.The Effect of Free-Atmosphere Stratification on Boundary-Layer Flow and Power Output from Very Large Wind Farms
Energies. 2013. DOI : 10.3390/en6052338.Measurement procedures for characterization of wind turbine wakes with scanning Doppler wind LiDARs
Advances in Science and Research. 2013. DOI : 10.5194/asr-10-71-2013.Field Measurements of Wind Turbine Wakes with Lidars
Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 2013. DOI : 10.1175/JTECH-D-12-00051.1.A modulated gradient model for scalar transport in large-eddy simulation of the atmospheric boundary layer
Physics of Fluids. 2013. DOI : 10.1063/1.4774342.Simulation of Turbulent Flow Inside and Above Wind Farms: Model Validation and Layout Effects
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2013. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-012-9757-y.Wind-Turbine Wakes in a Convective Boundary Layer: A Wind-Tunnel Study
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2013. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-012-9751-4.Mean and turbulent kinetic energy budgets inside and above very large wind farms under conventionally-neutral condition
2013. Conference on Aerodynamics of Offshore Wind Energy Systems and Wakes (ICOWES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2013.Linear stability analysis of wind turbine wakes performed on wind tunnel measurements
Journal Of Fluid Mechanics. 2013. DOI : 10.1017/jfm.2013.569.Near-wake instability and sensitivity analysis of wind turbines immersed in the atmospheric boundary layer
67th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, San Francisco, California, USA, November, 23-25, 2014.Interaction between large wind farms and the atmospheric boundary layer
2012. 23rd International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM), Beijing, China, August 19-24, 2012. p. 307 - 318. DOI : 10.1016/j.piutam.2014.01.026.Near-wake flow structure downwind of a wind turbine in a turbulent boundary layer
Experiments in Fluids. 2012. DOI : 10.1007/s00348-011-1250-8.Coupled dynamics of the co-evolution of gravel bed topography, flow turbulence and sediment transport in an experimental channel
Journal of Geophysical Research. 2012. DOI : 10.1029/2011JF002323.A new boundary condition for large-eddy simulation of boundary-layer flow over surface roughness transitions
Journal of Turbulence. 2012. DOI : 10.1080/14685248.2012.695077.Atmospheric Turbulence Effects on Wind-Turbine Wakes: An LES Study
Energies. 2012. DOI : 10.3390/en5125340.Turbulent flow and scalar transport through and over aligned and staggered wind farms
Journal of Turbulence. 2012. DOI : 10.1080/14685248.2012.709635.Large-Eddy Simulation of Atmospheric Boundary-Layer Flow Over Fluvial-Like Landscapes Using a Dynamic Roughness Model
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2012. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-012-9722-9.Hub vortex helical instability as the origin of wake meandering in the lee of a model wind-turbine
65th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, San Diego, California, USA, November, 18-20, 2012.Turbulent Flow Inside and Above aWind Farm: A Wind-Tunnel Study
Energies. 2011. DOI : 10.3390/en4111916.Large-eddy simulation of atmospheric boundary layer flow through wind turbines and wind farms
Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics. 2011. DOI : 10.1016/j.jweia.2011.01.011.A Large-Eddy Simulation Study of Turbulent Flow Over Multiscale Topography
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2011. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-011-9648-7.Large-Eddy Simulation of Wind-Turbine Wakes: Evaluation of Turbine Parametrisations
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2011. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-010-9569-x.Large-Eddy Simulation of Stably-Stratified Flow Over a Steep Hill
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2011. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-010-9562-4.Large-eddy simulation of a very large wind farm in a stable atmospheric boundary layer
Physics of Fluids. 2011. DOI : 10.1063/1.3589857.On the influence of gravel bed dynamics on velocity power spectra
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH. 2010. DOI : 10.1029/2009WR008190.Wind sheltering of a lake by a tree canopy or bluff topography
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH. 2010. DOI : 10.1029/2009WR007759.Effects of Thermal Stability and Incoming Boundary-Layer Flow Characteristics on Wind-Turbine Wakes: A Wind-Tunnel Study
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2010. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-010-9512-1.A modulated gradient model for large-eddy simulation: Application to a neutral atmospheric boundary layer
PHYSICS OF FLUIDS. 2010. DOI : 10.1063/1.3291073.Wind-tunnel study of surface boundary conditions for large-eddy simulation of turbulent flow past a rough-to-smooth surface transition
Journal Of Turbulence. 2010. DOI : 10.1080/14685241003627760.Estimation of power spectra of acoustic-doppler velocimetry data contaminated with intermittent spikes
Journal of Hydraulic Engineering. 2010. DOI : 10.1061/(ASCE)HY.1943-7900.0000202.Channel Bed Slope Effect on the Height of Gravity Waves Produced by a Sudden Downstream Discharge Stoppage
Journal of Hydraulic Engineering. 2010. DOI : 10.1061/(ASCE)HY.1943-7900.0000178.Surface Heterogeneity Effects on Regional-Scale Fluxes in Stable Boundary Layers: Surface Temperature Transitions
JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES. 2009. DOI : 10.1175/2008JAS2668.1.Detached eddy simulation of flow around two wall-mounted cubes in tandem
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND FLUID FLOW. 2009. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2009.01.006.Velocity and Surface Shear Stress Distributions Behind a Rough-to-Smooth Surface Transition: A Simple New Model
BOUNDARY-LAYER METEOROLOGY. 2009. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-008-9330-x.A Wind-Tunnel Investigation of Wind-Turbine Wakes: Boundary-Layer Turbulence Effects
BOUNDARY-LAYER METEOROLOGY. 2009. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-009-9380-8.Subfilter-scale fluxes over a surface roughness transition. Part I: Measured fluxes and energy transfer rates
BOUNDARY-LAYER METEOROLOGY. 2008. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-007-9228-z.Numerical simulations of coherent structures in flows around bottom-mounted obstacles
2008. River Flow 2008, Izmir-Cesme, Turkey, September 3-5, 2008.Subfilter-scale fluxes over a surface roughness transition. Part II: Evaluation of large-eddy simulation models
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2008. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-007-9255-9.Dynamic models for the subgrid-scale mixing of reactants in atmospheric turbulent reacting flows
JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES. 2008. DOI : 10.1175/2007JAS2392.1.Large-eddy simulation of the stable atmospheric boundary layer using dynamic models with different averaging schemes
BOUNDARY-LAYER METEOROLOGY. 2008. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-007-9207-4.Experimental Investigation of coherent vortices induced by a model instream structure at Re=1.5x10^5
2008. River Flow 2008, Izmir-Cesme, Turkey, September 3-5, 2008.Evaluation of dynamic subgrid-scale models in large-eddy simulations of neutral turbulent flow over a two-dimensional sinusoidal hill
Evaluation of dynamic subgrid-scale models in large-eddy simulations of neutral turbulent flow over a two-dimensional sinusoidal hill. 2007. DOI : 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2006.11.054.Large-eddy simulation of stably stratified atmospheric boundary layer turbulence: A scale-dependent dynamic modeling approach
JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES. 2006. DOI : 10.1175/JAS3734.1.Subgrid-scale modeling of reacting scalar fluxes in large-eddy simulations of atmospheric boundary layers
ENVIRONMENTAL FLUID MECHANICS. 2006. DOI : 10.1007/s10652-005-6020-9.Dynamic models for subgrid-scale transport and mixing of reactants in atmospheric turbulent reacting flows
2006. 17th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, San Diego, California, May 22-25, 2006.Application of dynamic subgrid-scale concepts from large-eddy simulation to modeling landscape evolution
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH. 2006. DOI : 10.1029/2006WR004879.Surface heterogeneity effects on regional-scale fluxes in stable boundary layers: An LES study
2006. 17th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, San Diego, California, May 22-25, 2006.Evaluation of dynamic subgrid-scale models in large-eddy simulations of turbulent flow over a two-dimensional sinusoidal hill
2006. 17th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, San Diego, California, May 22-25, 2006.Dynamic subgrid-scale models for momentum and scalar fluxes in large-eddy simulations of neutrally stratified atmospheric boundary layers over heterogeneous terrain
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH. 2006. DOI : 10.1029/2005WR003989.Revisiting the local scaling hypothesis in stably stratified atmospheric boundary-layer turbulence: An integration of field and laboratory measurements with large-eddy simulations
BOUNDARY-LAYER METEOROLOGY. 2006. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-005-9036-2.A-priori wind tunnel study of subfilter-scale models for LES over heterogeneous land surfaces
2006. 17th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, San Diego, California, May 22-25, 2006.Effect of roughness on surface boundary conditions for large-eddy simulation
BOUNDARY-LAYER METEOROLOGY. 2006. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-005-4735-2.A dynamic similarity subgrid model for chemical transformations in large-eddy simulation of the atmospheric boundary layer
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. 2005. DOI : 10.1029/2004GL021349.Advective velocity and energy dissipation rate in an oscillatory flow
WATER RESEARCH. 2005. DOI : 10.1016/j.watres.2005.04.062.Coherent structures and subfilter-scale dissipation rates of turbulence measured in the atmospheric surface layer
Journal of Turbulence. 2004. DOI : 10.1088/1468-5248/5/1/040.A scale-dependent dynamic model for scalar transport in large-eddy simulations of the atmospheric boundary layer
BOUNDARY-LAYER METEOROLOGY. 2004. DOI : 10.1023/B:BOUN.0000020353.03398.20.Scale-dependent dynamic models for LES: Surface heterogeneity effects
2004. 16th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Portland, Maine, August 9-13, 2004.Synthetic turbulence, fractal interpolation, and large-eddy simulation
Physical Review E. 2004. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.026310.Development of stable boundary layer parameterizations in numerical weather prediction models: a scale-dependent dynamic LES modeling approach
2004. 16th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Portland, Maine, August 9-13, 2004.Coherent structures and subfilter-scale energy transfer in LES: A field study
2004. 16th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Portland, Maine, August 9-13, 2004.A subgrid-scale model for chemical transformations in LES of convective boundary layer
2004. 16th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Portland, Maine, August 9-13, 2004.Multiscale interactions between surface shear stress and velocity in turbulent boundary layers
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES. 2003. DOI : 10.1029/2002JD003025.Predictability of atmospheric boundary-layer flows as a function of scale
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. 2002. DOI : 10.1029/2002GL015497.Moore's law and numerical modeling
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS. 2002. DOI : 10.1006/jcph.2002.7083.Scale-dependence and subgrid-scale modeling for LES
2002. 15th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Wageningen, The Netherlands, August 3-8, 2002.A priori field study of subgrid-scale heat fluxes and dissipation in the atmospheric surface layer
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 2001. DOI : 10.1175/1520-0469(2001)058<2673:APFSOT>2.0.CO;2.A Scale-Dependent Dynamic model for scalar transport in the atmospheric boundary layer
2001. International Conference in Computer Science (ICCS), San Francisco, USA, May 28-30, 2001. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-45718-6_114.Experimental study of wall boundary conditions for Large Eddy Simulation
JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS. 2001. DOI : 10.1017/S0022112001005924.Atmospheric stability effect on subgrid scale physics for large-eddy simulation
Advances in Water Resources. 2001. DOI : 10.1016/S0309-1708(01)00039-2.On Monin-Obukhov similarity in the stable atmospheric boudary layer
Boundary Layer Meteorology. 2001. DOI : 10.1023/A:1018909000098.A scale-dependent dynamic model for large-eddy simulation: application to a neutral atmospheric boundary layer
Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2000. DOI : 10.1017/S0022112000008776.Subgrid-scale dissipation in the atmospheric surface layer: Effects of stability and filter dimension
Journal of Hydrometeorology. 2000. DOI : 10.1175/1525-7541(2000)001<0075:SSDITA>2.0.CO;2.Mixture of time scales in land-atmosphere interaction: Desorption and self-similarity of energy fluxes
Agronomy Journal. 2000. DOI : 10.2134/agronj2000.925832x.Physics and modeling of small scale turbulence for large eddy simulation
Fundamental Problematic Issues in Turbulence; Basel: Birkhauser Verlag, 1999. p. 221 - 231.Some Basic Properties of the Surrogate Subgrid-Scale Heat Flux in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 1998. DOI : 10.1023/A:1001521504466.Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Environmental Sciences and Engineering
PhD Students
Duan Guiyue, Jamshidmofid Mohammad, Liu Luhao, Revaz Tristan, Souaiby Marwa,Past EPFL PhD Students
Abkar Mahdi , Bastankhah Majid , Carbajo Fuertes Fernando , Dar Arslan Salim , Lin Mou , Shamsoddin Sina , Vahidi Dara , Wu Yu-Ting ,Courses
Fluid mechanics (for SIE)
This course helps students acquire basic knowledge of the main concepts and equations of fluid mechanics and develop the skills necessary to work effectively in professional engineering practice.
Environmental transport phenomena
The course aims at introducing basic physical aspects of molecular and turbulent diffusion, as well as of dispersion processes, their mathematical modeling, solutions and related environmental applications