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Overview

Patrick Moriarty is affiliated with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on wind energy and related environmental and engineering aspects.

The main fields of study for their work include Engineering and Environmental Science, with specific subfields such as Aerospace Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Computational Mechanics.

The key topics covered in their research are:

  • Wind Energy Research and Development
  • Wind and Air Flow Studies
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Icing and De-icing Technologies
  • Solar Radiation and Photovoltaics
  • Advanced Aircraft Design and Technologies
  • Aerodynamics and Fluid Dynamics Research

Frequent co-authors include Nicholas Hamilton, Nicola Bodini, Stefano Letizia, Julie K. Lundquist, and Raghavendra Krishnamurthy.

Patrick Moriarty has published extensively in several venues. The most common publication outlets are:

  • Journal of Physics Conference Series
  • Wind energy science
  • Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy
  • Wind Energy
  • Scientific Reports

Recent papers by Patrick Moriarty include:

  • "Grand challenges in the design, manufacture, and operation of future wind turbine systems" (2023), published in Wind energy science
  • "Multimodel validation of single wakes in neutral and stratified atmospheric conditions" (2020), published in Wind Energy
  • "Continued results from a field campaign of wake steering applied at a commercial wind farm - Part 2" (2020), published in Wind energy science
  • "Wind plants can impact long-term local atmospheric conditions" (2021), published in Scientific Reports
  • "Can reanalysis products outperform mesoscale numerical weather prediction models in modeling the wind resource in simple terrain?" (2022), published in Wind energy science

Best Publications

  • Grand challenges in the science of wind energy

    Paul Veers;Katherine Dykes;Eric Lantz;Stephan Barth

  • AeroDyn Theory Manual

    P. J. Moriarty;A. C. Hansen

  • A numerical study of the effects of atmospheric and wake turbulence on wind turbine dynamics

    Matthew J. Churchfield;Sang Lee;John Michalakes;Patrick J. Moriarty

  • Evaluating techniques for redirecting turbine wakes using SOWFA

    Paul A. Fleming;Pieter M.O. Gebraad;Sang Lee;Jan-Willem van Wingerden

  • A large-eddy simulation of wind-plant aerodynamics

    Matthew J. Churchfield;Sang Lee;Patrick J. Moriarty;Luis A. Martínez

  • Simulation comparison of wake mitigation control strategies for a two-turbine case

    Paul Fleming;Pieter M.O. Gebraad;Sang Lee;Jan-Willem van Wingerden

  • Initial results from a field campaign of wake steering applied at a commercial wind farm – Part 1

    Paul Fleming;Jennifer King;Katherine Dykes;Eric Simley

  • A large-eddy simulation study of wake propagation and power production in an array of tidal-current turbines

    Matthew J. Churchfield;Ye Li;Patrick J. Moriarty

  • Grand challenges in the design, manufacture, and operation of future wind turbine systems

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  • Guidelines for Volume Force Distributions Within Actuator Line Modeling of Wind Turbines on Large-Eddy Simulation-Type Grids

    Pankaj K. Jha;Matthew J. Churchfield;Patrick J. Moriarty;Sven Schmitz

  • A Comparison of Actuator Disk and Actuator Line Wind Turbine Models and Best Practices for Their Use

    Luis A. Martínez;Stefano Leonardi;Matthew J. Churchfield;Patrick J. Moriarty

  • Semi-Empirical Aeroacoustic Noise Prediction Code for Wind Turbines

    P. Migliore;P. Moriarty

  • Extrapolation of Extreme and Fatigue Loads Using Probabilistic Methods

    P. J. Moriarty;W. E. Holley;S. P. Butterfield

  • Objectives and Constraints for Wind Turbine Optimization

    S. Andrew Ning;Rick Damiani;Patrick J. Moriarty

  • A simulation study demonstrating the importance of large-scale trailing vortices in wake steering

    Paul Fleming;Jennifer Annoni;Matthew Churchfield;Luis A. Martinez-Tossas

  • Mesoscale to microscale wind farm flow modeling and evaluation

    Javier Sanz Rodrigo;Roberto Aurelio Chávez Arroyo;Patrick Moriarty;Matthew Churchfield

  • On Bridging A Modeling Scale Gap: Mesoscale to Microscale Coupling for Wind Energy

    Sue Ellen Haupt;Branko Kosovic;William Shaw;Larry K. Berg

  • Atmospheric and Wake Turbulence Impacts on Wind Turbine Fatigue Loading: Preprint

    Sang Lee;Matthew Churchfield;Patrick Moriarty;J Jonkman

  • SOWFA Super-Controller: A High-Fidelity Tool for Evaluating Wind Plant Control Approaches

    P. Fleming;P. Gebraad;J. W. van Wingerden;S. Lee

  • Multimodel validation of single wakes in neutral and stratified atmospheric conditions

    Paula Doubrawa;Eliot W. Quon;Luis A. Martinez-Tossas;Kelsey Shaler

  • Prediction of Turbulent Inflow and Trailing-Edge Noise for Wind Turbines

    Patrick J. Moriarty;Gianfranco Guidati;Paul Migliore

  • High-fidelity simulation comparison of wake mitigation control strategies for a two-turbine case

    P. Fleming;P. Gebraad;S. Lee;K. Johnson

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew J. Churchfield
Matthew J. Churchfield National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Julie K. Lundquist
Julie K. Lundquist University of Colorado Boulder
Paul Fleming
Paul Fleming National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Eric Loth
Eric Loth University of Virginia
Michael S. Selig
Michael S. Selig University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jason Jonkman
Jason Jonkman National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Carlo L. Bottasso
Carlo L. Bottasso Technical University of Munich
Stefano Leonardi
Stefano Leonardi Sapienza University of Rome
Andrew Ning
Andrew Ning Brigham Young University

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