Research Portfolio

Key research projects and contributions to wind energy and atmospheric science.

Acoustic Tomography for Wind Energy

Principle Investigator developing sensing technology that reconstructs three-dimensional atmospheric wind and temperature fields from sound propagation

AWAKEN: American WAKE experimeNt

Co-Investigator and Lead Coordinator for large-scale wind energy field campaign producing 200+ TB of benchmark data across 12+ institutions

FLOWMAS: Exascale Computing for Floating Offshore Wind

$19M DOE Office of Science project developing algorithms for coupled fluid-structure-mooring dynamics at exascale

Two of the five Energy Earthshots projects NREL is involved in consider wind technology. Photo by Brent Rice, NREL