Researcher

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Jonathon Sumner

Department of Physics

鈥檚 research uses mathematical models to simulate air flow around wind聽turbines. He was awarded an FRQNT research grant for 2014-17 on 鈥淪imulation des聽茅coulements atmosph茅riques dans un parc 茅olien afin d鈥櫭﹙aluer sa performance et maximiser son聽rendement 脿 partir des 茅quations de Navier-Stokes鈥.

Publications

  • Breton S-P, Sumner J, S酶rensen JN, Hansen KS, Sarmast S, Ivanell S. (2017). “A survey of modelling methods for high-fidelity wind farm simulations using large eddy simulation.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 375: 20160097.
  • Sumner, J., Espana, G., Masson, C., & Aubrun, S. (2013). 鈥淓valuation of RANS/actuator聽disk modelling of wind turbine wake flow using wind tunnel measurements.鈥 International聽Journal of Engineering Systems Modelling and Simulation, 5(1), 147-158.
  • Sumner, J., Cabez贸n, D., Masson, C., & Crespo, A. (2014).鈥滱 Closer Look at Second-Moment Closure for Wind Farm Analysis.鈥 In Wind Energy-Impact of Turbulence (pp.93-99). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

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