Mahdi Abkar
Assistant Professor
Department of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering, Navitas
Aarhus University
Denmark
Biography
Mahdi Abkar is a Assistant Professor in the University of Aarhus, and Postdoctoral Fellow - Center for Turbulence Research (CTR), Stanford University, Stanford, USA 2015-2017.Postdoctoral Fellow - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland 2014-2015.PhD in Mechanical Engineering - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland 2010-2014.
Research Interest
Computational Fluid Dynamics. Turbulence. Boundary-Layer Meteorology. Large Eddy Simulation. Wind Energy. Wind-Farm Modeling, Optimization and Control.
Publications
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Abkar M, Moin P. Large-Eddy Simulation of Thermally Stratified Atmospheric Boundary-Layer Flow Using a Minimum Dissipation Model. Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2017:1-5.
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Abkar M, Dabiri JO. Self-similarity and flow characteristics of vertical-axis wind turbine wakes: an LES study. Journal of Turbulence. 2017 Apr 3;18(4):373-89.
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Abkar M, Porté-Agel F. Influence of the Coriolis force on the structure and evolution of wind turbine wakes. Physical Review Fluids. 2016 Oct 24;1(6):063701.
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Abkar M, Bae HJ, Moin P. Minimum-dissipation scalar transport model for large-eddy simulation of turbulent flows. Physical Review Fluids. 2016 Aug 29;1(4):041701.
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Abkar M, Sharifi A, Porté-Agel F. Wake flow in a wind farm during a diurnal cycle. Journal of Turbulence. 2016 Apr 2;17(4):420-41.
