Aerodynamics, Wind, And Renewable Energy:
AWARE Lab
Joining forces with the atmosphere to build a more sustainable future
3D particle-tracking velocimetry (PTV) in the wake of a full-scale vertical-axis wind turbine using artificial snow (FLOWE site, Dabiri Lab)
A wind turbine on a custom-built moving traverse, used to investigate the aerodynamics of turbines in unsteady flows (Caltech)
Field measurements of atmospheric flows using bubbles as tracer particles (Island Beach State Park, NJ)
A turbine on a surging traverse in a towing tank (Rival Lab, Queen's University)
Smoke-wire visualization of a leading-edge vortex over a plunging airfoil (TU Darmstadt)
Particle-image velocimetry (PIV) in a scaled-up model of human vocal folds (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
An active grid with individually controllable paddles for tailoring turbulent flows, designed by Dr. Gregory Bewley (Göttingen, Germany)