TTU has Strong Representation at Wind Farm 2016 Conference

Texas Tech University will be well represented at the recent Wind Farm 2016 conference to be held in Dallas, TX,  on May 22-24.

This will be the 3rd conference where leading world wind energy experts will meet under the NSF-funded international network, "Windinspire" to discuss pressing issues in wind energy research. Texas Tech University is a co-organizer of this network along with Johns Hopkins University.

The TTU papers will cover the following:

• Low level jet impact on wind turbines, based on measurements from NWI's 200 m met-tower at the 67-acre field site at Reese Technological Center
• Wake steering laser-based PIV measurements made in our wind tunnel at Reese Technological Center. For more information concerning this project, please see the pdf here.
• Scaling of wake measurements made with our research partners at Princeton University in their unique high pressure facility. (Get a tour of Princeton University's testing lab.)

 

Text credit: Dr. Cartsen Westergaard, NWI Research Professor.