Our research on wind turbine icing and anti-/de-icing is featured by the scientific magazine, "The Conversation", on 03/04/2021
· iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-uptime-wind-energy-podcast/id1504249857?i=1000549110661
· YouTube: https://youtu.be/rEKkNoqWGS8
· Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7d19Rm5qK7IapGY49sFHrb?si=c68b1d7e54694334
· Weatherguardwind: https://weatherguardwind.com/dr-hui-hu-wind-turbine-icing/
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Research Highlights on Aircraft Icing Physics and Anti-/De-Icing (updated on 03/01/2020)
01/27/2022:
Dr. Hu is
Interviewed by "Uptime Wind Energy Podcast" on our
research on wind turbine icing and anti-/de-icing:
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iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-uptime-wind-energy-podcast/id1504249857?i=1000549110661
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YouTube: https://youtu.be/rEKkNoqWGS8
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Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7d19Rm5qK7IapGY49sFHrb?si=c68b1d7e54694334
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Weatherguardwind:
https://weatherguardwind.com/dr-hui-hu-wind-turbine-icing/
03/04/2021: Our recent research paper, entitled "A field study of ice accretion and its effects on the power production of utility-scale wind turbines", is highlighted by the headline news of Iowa State University.
03/04/2021: Our research efforts on wind turbine icing and anti-/de-icing is featured by the scientific magazine, "The Conversation", with the article entitled: "The science behind frozen wind turbines – and how to keep them spinning through the winter".
02/19/2021:
Our research on
wind turbine icing and anti-/de-icing
has been featured by several news agencies on "Should the frozen wind turbines be blamed for the
over week-long blackout in Texas with millions of Texans being
affected?".
https://www.vox.com/2021/2/19/22290512/texas-winter-storm-wind-energy-power-outage-grid-fox-news
https://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/iowa-wind-turbines-equipped-to-handle-extreme-cold-ice-is-another-matter-20210219
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/wind-farms-arent-all-ready-for-icing-amid-changing-climate
https://mashable.com/article/wind-turbines-texas/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/uhenergy/2021/03/02/when-to-start-planning-for-the-next-deadly-cold-wave-the-answer-is-now/?sh=1745b6dc23dd
https://www.amestrib.com/story/news/education/2021/03/07/iowa-state-study-finds-foot-thick-ice-can-reduce-wind-power-production-80-weather-winter-storms/4594328001/
10/30/2019: Our research on wind turbine icing and anti-/de-icing is on the news headline of US energy news network: "Iowa State researchers seek solution for icy wind turbine blades".
09/23/2019: Our research on wind turbine icing and anti-/de-icing is on the news headline of Iowa State University: "Engineers study icing/de-icing of wind turbine blades to improve winter power production".
04/15/2019: Dr. Yang Liu accepted a tenure-track assistant professor offer from College of Engineering and Technology, East Carolina University, in Greenville, North Carolina. Congratulations, Yang!
04/11/2019: Linyue Gao defended her PhD thesis successfully. Congratulations, Dr. Gao!
03/01/2019: Liqun Ma defended his PhD thesis successfully. Congratulations, Dr. Ma!
01/01/2019: Website of 2019 NSF-IRES Summer Internship on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability is online.
11/14/2018: Linkai Li defended his PhD thesis successfully. Congratulations, Dr. Li!
08/10/2018: Announcement of NSF-IRES program for International Research Experience for Graduate and Undergraduate Students on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability.
05/20/2018: Dr. Pavithra Premaratne accepted a tenure-track assistant professor offer from Mechanical Engineering Department of Central College in Pella, Iowa. Congratulations, Dr. Premaratne!
04/10/2018: Zhe Ning defended his PhD thesis successfully. Congratulations, Dr. Ning!
02/01/2018: Pavithra defended his PhD thesis successfully. Congratulations, Dr. Premaratne!
01/01/2018: Haiyang Hu joins in our research group as a PhD student from Northwest Polytechnic University. Welcome, Haiyang!
01/01/2018: Dr. Hu has joined Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, Elsevier, as an Editor.
09/01/2017: Zichen Zhang joins in the group as a PhD student from Northwestern Polytechnic University. Welcome, Zichen!
09/01/2017: Ramsanka Veerakumar joins in the group as a PhD student from BITS-Pilani. Welcome, Ram!
07/13/2017: Haixing Li defended his PhD thesis successfully. Congratulations, Dr. LI!
06/10/2017: Wenwu Zhou accepted a tenure-track assistant professor offer from Mechanical Engineering Department of Shanghai JiaoTong University (SJTU) in Shanghai, China. Congratulations, Dr. Zhou!
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