Publications

Journal publications

(Students and Postdoctoral Scholars underlined)

Articles in review

Annual wake impacts in and between wind farm clusters modelled by a mesoscale numerical weather prediction model and fast-running engineering models

Porchetta S, Howland MF, Borgers R, Buckingham S and Munters W

In review (2024) [preprint]


Coriolis effects on wind turbine wakes across atmospheric boundary layer regimes

Heck KS and Howland MF

In review (2024) [preprint]


2024

Decarbonized energy system planning with high-resolution spatial representation of renewables lowers cost

Qiu L, Khorramfar R, Amin S and Howland MF

Cell Reports Sustainability (2024), Cover Article [Article, pdf]


“Momentum deficit and wake-added turbulence kinetic energy budgets in the stratified atmospheric boundary layer”

Klemmer KS and Howland MF

Physical Review Fluids (2024), Editors' Suggestion [Article, pdf]


“Unified Momentum Model for Rotor Aerodynamics Across Operating Regimes”

Liew J, Heck KS and Howland MF

Nature Communications (2024) [Article, pdf]


“Modeling the effect of wind speed and direction shear on utility-scale wind turbine power production”

Mata S, Martínez JJP, Quesada JB, Larrañaga FP, Yadav N, Chawla J, Sivaram V and Howland MF

Wind Energy (2024), Cover Article [Article, pdf]


Going beyond decarbonization: Designing renewables for environmental co-benefits

Qiu L and Howland MF

Joule (2024) [Article]


"Evaluation of wind resource uncertainty on energy production estimates for offshore wind farms" 

Klemmer K, Condon E, and Howland MF

Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy (2024) [Article]


"Analysing the impact of failure rates for the next generation of offshore wind turbines considering wind turbine type and location" 

Donnelly O, Carroll J, and Howland MF

Wind Energy (2024) [Article]


"CalibrateEmulateSample.jl: Accelerated Parametric Uncertainty Quantification" 

Dunbar ORA, Bieli M, Garbuno-Iñigo A, Howland MF, Nogueira de Souza A, Mansfield LA, Wagner GL, and Efrat-Henrici N

Journal of Open Source Software (2024) [Article]


2023

“Modeling the induction, thrust, and power of a yaw misaligned actuator disk”

Heck KS, Johlas HM and Howland MF

Journal of Fluid Mechanics (2023) [Article, open access pdf (of preprint)]


"Towards sequential sensor placements on a wind farm to maximize lifetime energy and profit"

Yildiz A, Mern J, Kochenderfer MJ and Howland MF

Renewable Energy (2023) [Article]


"Parameter uncertainty quantification of wake models to analyze effects of wake superposition" 

LoCascio M, Gorle C and Howland MF

Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy (2023) [Article, open access pdf (of preprint)]


“Visual anemometry for physics-informed inference of wind,” 

Dabiri JO, Howland MF, Fu MK and Goldshmid RH 

Nature Reviews Physics (2023) [Article, open access pdf (of preprint)]


2022

Collective wind farm operation based on a predictive model increases utility-scale energy production

Howland MF, Quesada JB, Martínez JJP, Larrañaga FP, Yadav N, Chawla J, Sivaram V and Dabiri JO

Nature Energy (2022), Cover Article [Article]


“Operating wind farm turbines collectively increases total energy production

Howland MF

Nature Research Briefing (2022) [Article]


"Ensemble-Based Experimental Design for Targeted High-Resolution Simulations to Inform Climate Models

Dunbar ORA, Howland MF, Schneider T and Stuart AM

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES) (2022) [Article, pdf]


"Parameter uncertainty quantification in an idealized GCM with a seasonal cycle

Howland MF, Dunbar ORA, and Schneider, T 

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES) (2022) [Article, pdf]


“Optimal closed-loop wake steering, Part 2: Diurnal cycle atmospheric boundary layer conditions”

Howland MF, Ghate AS, Quesada JB, Martínez JJP, Zhong W, Larrañaga FP, Lele SK and Dabiri JO

Wind Energy Science (2022) [Article, pdf]


2021

"Wind farm yaw control set-point optimization under model parameter uncertainty

Howland MF 

Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy (2021) [Article, pdf]


"The curled wake model: a three-dimensional and extremely fast steady-state wake solver for wind plant flows"

Martínez-Tossas LA, King J, Quon E, Bay CJ, Mudafort R, Hamilton N, Howland MF, and Fleming PA 

Wind Energy Science (2021) [Article, pdf]


"Near-wake structure of full-scale vertical-axis wind turbines" 

Wei N, Brownstein I, Cardona JL, Howland MF and Dabiri JO 

Journal of Fluid Mechanics (2021) [Article, pdf]


"Influence of wake model superposition and secondary steering on model-based wake steering control with SCADA data assimilation" 

Howland MF and Dabiri JO 

Energies (2021) [Article, pdf]


2020

"Influence of atmospheric conditions on the power production of utility-scale wind turbines in yaw misalignment" 

Howland MF, Gonzalez C, Martínez JP, Quesada J, Larrañaga F, Yadav N , Chawla J and Dabiri JO 

Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy (2020), Featured Article [Article, pdf, Scilight]


"Optimal closed-loop wake steering - Part 1: Conventionally neutral atmospheric boundary layer conditions" 

Howland MF, Ghate AS, Lele SK and Dabiri JO 

Wind Energy Science (2020) [Article, pdf


"Influence of the geostrophic wind direction on the atmospheric boundary layer flow"

Howland MF, Ghate AS and Lele SK 

Journal of Fluid Mechanics (2020) [Article]


2019

"Wind farm power optimization through wake steering"

Howland MF, Lele SK and Dabiri JO 

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (2019), Cover Article [Article, pdf]


"Wind farm modeling with interpretable physics-informed machine learning"

Howland MF and Dabiri JO 

Energies (2019) [Article, pdf]


2018

"Dependence of small-scale energetics on large scales in turbulent flows"

Howland MF and Yang XIA 

Journal of Fluid Mechanics (2018) [Article, pdf]


"Implication of Taylor’s hypothesis on measuring flow modulation"

Yang XIA and Howland MF 

Journal of Fluid Mechanics (2018) [Article, pdf]


2017

"Measurement of unsteady loading and power output variability in a micro wind farm model in a wind tunnel"

Bossuyt J, Howland MF, Meneveau C and Meyers J 

Experiments in Fluids (2017) [Article, pdf]


2016

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

Howland MF, Bossuyt J, Martínez-Tossas LA, Meyers J and Meneveau C 

Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy (2016) [Article, pdf]

Conference publications and reports

2024

“Enhanced Modeling of Joint Yaw and Axial Induction Control Using Blade Element Momentum Methods" 

Liew J, Heck KS and Howland MF

Torque 2024 [Conference Paper, pdf]


“Investigation of far-wake models coupled with yaw-induction control for power optimization" 

Heck KS, Liew J and Howland MF

Torque 2024 [Conference Paper, pdf]


“Assessing closed-loop data-driven wind farm control strategies within a wind tunnel" 

Hulsman P, Howland, MF, Gocmen T and Petrovic V

Torque 2024 [Conference Paper, pdf]


“Self-learning data-driven wind farm control strategy using field measurements" 

Hulsman P, Howland, MF, Gocmen T and Petrovic V

American Control Conference 2024 [Conference Paper]


2022

"On the impact of the yaw update frequency and wind direction forecasting on open-loop wake steering control

Howland MF, Johlas HM, Quesada JB, Martínez JJP, Zhong W and Larrañaga FP. 

American Control Conference 2022 [Conference paper]


2020

"Coriolis effects within and trailing a large finite wind farm" 

Howland MF, Ghate AS and Lele SK. 

AIAA SciTech 2020 [Conference Paper, pdf]


2019

"Seeing the wind: Visual wind speed prediction with a coupled convolutional and recurrent neural network" 

Cardona, JL, Howland MF and Dabiri JO. 2019. 

NeurIPS 2019 [Conference Paper, pdf]


2018

"Influence of the horizontal component of Earth’s rotation on wind turbine wakes"

Howland MF, Ghate A and Lele SK. 

Torque 2018 [Conference Paper, pdf]


"Dependence of small-scale energetics on large scales in wall-bounded flows"

Howland MF and Xiang XIA 

CTR Annual Research Briefs (2017) [CTR Brief, pdf]


2017

"Optimal control of a single leg hopper by Liouvillian system reduction"

Slade P, Powell S and Howland MF

arXiv preprint (2017) [arXiv, pdf]


2016

"Wind tunnel study of the power output spectrum in a micro wind farm"

Bossuyt J, Howland MF, Meneveau C and Meyers J. 

Torque 2016 [Conference Paper, pdf]


"Measuring power output intermittency and unsteady loading in a micro wind farm model"

Bossuyt J, Howland MF, Meneveau C and Meyers J. 

AIAA SciTech 2016 [Conference Paper, pdf]


2014

"Assessing the impact of power rate limitation based wind control strategy"

Howland MF, Krishnan V, Brown N and McCalley J. 

IEEE T&D 2014 [Conference Paper, pdf]