Postdoctoral Associate position available

The Howland Lab, based in Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Department, invites applications for a two-year Postdoctoral Scholar position. 

To meet net-zero carbon emissions targets by mid-century, up to a 30-fold increase in wind power capacity is required. Wind power systems exhibit complex, nonlinear interactions with the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL). The winds in the ABL dictate the power and forces on the turbine, which in turn affect the wakes turbines generate. The winds in the ABL also dictate the turbulence in the wind turbine wake, which controls recovery. At the wind farm scale, similar mechanisms may exist, but they are poorly understood. As a result, there are significant limitations in existing models of large-scale wakes generated by wind farms. In this project, we develop multi-fidelity modeling and multi-fidelity uncertainty quantification methods to improve predictions of wind farm wakes. This project will use a synergistic combination of large eddy simulation (LES), numerical weather predictions (NWP), and novel, fast-running engineering models to unlock innovations in wind farm wake modeling in order to accelerate the clean energy transition.

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