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Johan Meyers

Johan Meyers

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
40
Citations
7725
World Ranking
1995
National Ranking
18

Overview

Johan Meyers is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and is engaged primarily in engineering research, with a focus on aerospace engineering, computational mechanics, and environmental engineering. Their research work encompasses several subfields including electrical and electronic engineering as well as global and planetary change.

The main topics tackled in Meyers' body of work include wind energy research and development, wind and air flow studies, fluid dynamics and vibration analysis, and fluid dynamics and turbulent flows. Additional topics of interest are wind turbine control systems, meteorological phenomena and simulations, and solar radiation and photovoltaics.

Meyers has published extensively in notable venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Wind energy science
  • Journal of Physics Conference Series
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Meyers include:

  • Wind farm flow control: prospects and challenges, 2022, Wind energy science
  • Expert Elicitation on Wind Farm Control, 2020, Journal of Physics Conference Series
  • Grand Challenges: wind energy research needs for a global energy transition, 2022, Wind energy science
  • A parametric large-eddy simulation study of wind-farm blockage and gravity waves in conventionally neutral boundary layers, 2024, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Turbulent boundary-layer flow over regular multiscale roughness, 2021, Journal of Fluid Mechanics

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Ishaan Sood, Luca Lanzilao, Thijs Bon, Stefan Vandewalle, and Nicole Van Lipzig. These coauthors have contributed to numerous joint publications, reflecting ongoing research partnerships.

Best Publications

  • Large eddy simulation study of fully developed wind-turbine array boundary layers

    Marc Calaf;Charles Meneveau;Johan Meyers

  • Optimal turbine spacing in fully developed wind farm boundary layers

    Johan Meyers;Charles Meneveau

  • Wake structure in actuator disk models of wind turbines in yaw under uniform inflow conditions

    Michael F. Howland;Juliaan Bossuyt;Juliaan Bossuyt;Luis A. Martínez-Tossas;Johan Meyers

  • Optimal control of energy extraction in wind-farm boundary layers

    Jay P. Goit;Johan Meyers

  • Wind farm flow control: prospects and challenges

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  • Database-analysis of errors in Large-Eddy Simulation

    Johan Meyers;Bernard J. Geurts;Martine Baelmans

  • Dynamic Strategies for Yaw and Induction Control of Wind Farms Based on Large-Eddy Simulation and Optimization

    Wim Munters;Johan Meyers

  • Large Eddy Simulations of large wind-turbine arrays in the atmospheric boundary layer

    Johan Meyers;Charles Meneveau

  • Boundary-layer development and gravity waves in conventionally neutral wind farms

    Dries Allaerts;Johan Meyers

  • Shifted periodic boundary conditions for simulations of wall-bounded turbulent flows

    Wim Munters;Charles Meneveau;Johan Meyers

  • On the model coefficients for the standard and the variational multi-scale Smagorinsky model

    Johan Meyers;Pierre Sagaut

  • A control-oriented dynamic wind farm model: WFSim

    Sjoerd Boersma;Bart Doekemeijer;Mehdi Vali;Johan Meyers

  • Is plane-channel flow a friendly case for the testing of large-eddy simulation subgrid-scale models?

    Johan Meyers;Pierre Sagaut

  • Large eddy simulation of a large wind-turbine array in a conventionally neutral atmospheric boundary layer

    Dries Allaerts;Johan Meyers

  • Quality and Reliability of Large-Eddy Simulations

    Johan Meyers;Bernard J. Geurts;Pierre Sagaut

  • Sensitivity analysis of large-eddy simulations to subgrid-scale-model parametric uncertainty using polynomial chaos

    Didier Lucor;Johan Meyers;Pierre Sagaut

  • Towards practical dynamic induction control of wind farms: analysis of optimally controlled wind-farm boundary layers and sinusoidal induction control of first-row turbines

    Wim Munters;Johan Meyers

  • Model-based receding horizon control of wind farms for secondary frequency regulation

    Carl R. Shapiro;Pieter Bauweraerts;Johan Meyers;Charles Meneveau

  • Gravity Waves and Wind-Farm Efficiency in Neutral and Stable Conditions

    Dries Allaerts;Johan Meyers

  • A computational error-assessment of central finite-volume discretizations in large-eddy simulation using a Smagorinsky model

    J. Meyers;B. J. Geurts;P. Sagaut

  • An optimal control framework for dynamic induction control of wind farms and their interaction with the atmospheric boundary layer.

    Wim Munters;Johan Meyers

  • The Science of Making Torque from Wind (TORQUE 2016)

    C. L. Bottasso;E. Bossanyi;T. Chaviaropoulos;P. W. Cheng

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles Meneveau
Charles Meneveau Johns Hopkins University
Bernardus J. Geurts
Bernardus J. Geurts University of Twente
Pierre Sagaut
Pierre Sagaut Aix-Marseille University
Bharathram Ganapathisubramani
Bharathram Ganapathisubramani University of Southampton
Wim Desmet
Wim Desmet KU Leuven
Moritz Diehl
Moritz Diehl University of Freiburg
Johan Driesen
Johan Driesen KU Leuven

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