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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Atlanta, GA | Posted: January 23, 2013
If you are visiting the National Science Foundation (NSF) Headquarters in Washington, D.C., look for GTAE's contribution to sustainable energy research. Graphical results from NSF Grant 0731034 entitled "Advances in Wind Turbine Analysis and Design for Sustainable Energy" are on display at the NSF Headquarters.
Prof. Marilyn Smith of AE led the project's research development with co-principal investigator Dr. Christopher P. Stone, GT 2003, of Computational Science & Engineering, LLC and doctoral student C. Eric Lynch, GT (PhD) 2011.
The graphic provides an example of the vorticity field about the Unsteady Aerodynamics Experience (UAE) Phase-VI wind turbine rotor using their modified version of NASA's OVERFLOW code. Iso-surfaces of vorticity-magnitude are colored with velocity magnitude. The results shown illustrate the impact of improved turbulence modeling via a detached eddy simulation on unsteady flows. Their progress in advancing the state of the art in modeling and simulation of wind turbines has also been highlighted in a public speech given by the NSF director. The algorithm advancements from this effort have been incorporated and are now available in NASA's FUN3D unstructured CFD solver.
Prof. Smith is currently partnered with Dr. Glen Whitehouse of Continuum Dynamics Inc. to extend this research to wind farm and long-age wake analysis through an award by the Department of Energy.
