Publications
Journal publications
(Students and Postdoctoral Scholars underlined)
Articles in review
“Quantitative evaluation of reanalysis and numerical weather prediction models for wind resource predictions in offshore, coastal, and terrestrial environments”
Qiu L and Howland MF
In review (2025) [preprint]
“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 (2025) [preprint]
2025
“Coriolis effects on wind turbine wakes across atmospheric boundary layer regimes”
Heck KS and Howland MF
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, to appear (2025) [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
“Multifidelity modeling and uncertainty quantification of heterogeneous roughness”
Shin Y, Chan M, Wang J, Zahtila T, Gorle C, Iaccarino G and Howland MF
Center for Turbulence Research Proceedings of the Summer Program 2024 (2024) [Article, pdf]
“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]