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Overview

Fernando Porté-Agel is affiliated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on engineering and environmental science, with extensive work in aerospace engineering, environmental engineering, computational mechanics, electrical and electronic engineering, and artificial intelligence.

Their main research topics include:

  • Wind Energy Research and Development
  • Wind and Air Flow Studies
  • Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis
  • Aerodynamics and Fluid Dynamics Research
  • Energy Load and Power Forecasting
  • Icing and De-icing Technologies
  • Solar Radiation and Photovoltaics

Fernando Porté-Agel has published extensively in several academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Journal of Physics Conference Series
  • Energies
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Renewable Energy
  • Physics of Fluids

Recent publications by Porté-Agel and collaborators consist of studies on wind farm power prediction, yaw control for wind farms, and atmospheric boundary layer modeling. Notable papers include:

  • "A momentum-conserving wake superposition method for wind farm power prediction," 2020, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • "Experimental investigation and analytical modelling of active yaw control for wind farm power optimization," 2021, Renewable Energy
  • "Numerical Weather Prediction and Artificial Neural Network Coupling for Wind Energy Forecast," 2021, Energies
  • "A point vortex transportation model for yawed wind turbine wakes," 2020, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • "A physics-based model for wind turbine wake expansion in the atmospheric boundary layer," 2022, Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Porté-Agel include Arslan Salim Dar, Jiannong Fang, Mou Lin, Peter Brugger, and Dara Vahidi. These collaborations indicate a network of researchers engaged in topics related to wind energy and fluid dynamics.

Best Publications

  • A new analytical model for wind-turbine wakes

    Majid Bastankhah;Fernando Porté-Agel

  • Wind-Turbine and Wind-Farm Flows: A Review

    Fernando Porté-Agel;Majid Bastankhah;Majid Bastankhah;Sina Shamsoddin

  • Experimental and theoretical study of wind turbine wakes in yawed conditions

    Majid Bastankhah;Fernando Porté-Agel

  • A scale-dependent dynamic model for large-eddy simulation: application to a neutral atmospheric boundary layer

    Fernando Porté-Agel;Charles Meneveau;Marc B. Parlange

  • Large-Eddy Simulation of Wind-Turbine Wakes: Evaluation of Turbine Parametrisations

    Yu Ting Wu;Fernando Porté-Agel

  • A Wind-Tunnel Investigation of Wind-Turbine Wakes: Boundary-Layer Turbulence Effects

    Leonardo P. Chamorro;Fernando Porté-Agel

  • Large-eddy simulation of atmospheric boundary layer flow through wind turbines and wind farms

    Fernando Porté-Agel;Fernando Porté-Agel;Yu Ting Wu;Yu Ting Wu;Hao Lu;Robert J. Conzemius

  • Influence of atmospheric stability on wind-turbine wakes: A large-eddy simulation study

    Mahdi Abkar;Fernando Porté-Agel

  • Atmospheric Turbulence Effects on Wind-Turbine Wakes: An LES Study

    Yu Ting Wu;Fernando Porté-Agel

  • Large-eddy simulation of a very large wind farm in a stable atmospheric boundary layer

    Hao Lu;Fernando Porté-Agel

  • Effects of Thermal Stability and Incoming Boundary-Layer Flow Characteristics on Wind-Turbine Wakes: A Wind-Tunnel Study

    Leonardo P. Chamorro;Fernando Porté-Agel;Fernando Porté-Agel

  • Analytical Modeling of Wind Farms: A New Approach for Power Prediction

    Amin Niayifar;Fernando Porté-Agel

  • Modeling turbine wakes and power losses within a wind farm using LES: An application to the Horns Rev offshore wind farm

    Yu Ting Wu;Fernando Porté-Agel

  • A Numerical Study of the Effects of Wind Direction on Turbine Wakes and Power Losses in a Large Wind Farm

    Fernando Port́e-Agel;Yu Ting Wu;Chang Hung Chen

  • On Monin-Obukhov similarity in the stable atmospheric boundary layer

    Markus Pahlow;Marc B. Parlange;Fernando Porté-Agel

  • Simulation of Turbulent Flow Inside and Above Wind Farms: Model Validation and Layout Effects

    Yu Ting Wu;Fernando Porté-Agel

  • Near-wake flow structure downwind of a wind turbine in a turbulent boundary layer

    Wei Zhang;Corey D. Markfort;Fernando Porté-Agel

  • Field Measurements of Wind Turbine Wakes with Lidars

    Giacomo Valerio Iungo;Yu Ting Wu;Fernando Porté-Agel

  • Turbulent Flow Inside and Above a Wind Farm: A Wind-Tunnel Study

    Leonardo P. Chamorro;Fernando Porté-Agel;Fernando Porté-Agel

  • Dynamic subgrid‐scale models for momentum and scalar fluxes in large‐eddy simulations of neutrally stratified atmospheric boundary layers over heterogeneous terrain

    Rob Stoll;Fernando Porté-Agel

  • Large-eddy simulation of stably stratified atmospheric boundary layer turbulence: A scale-dependent dynamic modeling approach

    Sukanta Basu;Fernando Porté-Agel

Frequent Co-Authors

Leonardo P. Chamorro
Leonardo P. Chamorro University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Marc B. Parlange
Marc B. Parlange University of Rhode Island
Charles Meneveau
Charles Meneveau Johns Hopkins University
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou University of California, Irvine
Heinz G. Stefan
Heinz G. Stefan University of Minnesota
Fotis Sotiropoulos
Fotis Sotiropoulos Pennsylvania State University
François Gallaire
François Gallaire École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Jens Nørkær Sørensen
Jens Nørkær Sørensen Technical University of Denmark
Paul Fleming
Paul Fleming National Renewable Energy Laboratory
John D. Albertson
John D. Albertson Cornell University

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