Dr. Dennice F. Gayme
Johns Hopkins University
Seminar Information
The dynamics of the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) play a fundamental role in wind farm power production, governing the velocity field that enters the farm as well as the turbulent mixing that regenerates energy for extraction at downstream rows. Understanding the dynamic interactions between turbines, wind farms, and the ABL can therefore be beneficial in improving the efficiency of wind farm design and control approaches. This talk introduces a suite of models that exploit this knowledge to improve predictions of both static and dynamic conditions in the wind farm. We then demonstrate how these ideas can be extended to a control setting.
Dennice F. Gayme is a Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. She received her B. Eng. & Society in Mechanical Engineering from McMaster University in 1997, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1998, and her Ph.D. in Control and Dynamical Systems from the California Institute of Technology in 2010. Her research interests are in modeling, analysis and control of spatially distributed and large-scale networked systems, such as wind farms, wall-bounded shear flows, and power systems. She was a recipient of a JHU Catalyst Award in 2015, ONR Young Investigator and NSF CAREER awards in 2017, a Whiting School of Engineering Johns Hopkins Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award in 2020, and the Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena (TSFP12) Nobuhide Kasagi Award in 2022. She is a fellow of the American Physical Society (2024) and serves as the Standing Chair of the Women in Control Committee of the Control Systems Society (CSS) of the IEEE, and on the editorial boards of the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, Physical Review Fluids and PRX Energy.