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Flash of the Month:

Our research on wind turbine icing and anti-/de-icing is featured by the scientific magazine, "The Conversation", on 03/04/2021

Our 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. on 03/04/2021

              (a). airflow velocity V=15m/s                                       (b). airflow velocity V=20m/s                                                  (c). airflow velocity V=25m/s

Surface water rivulet/film flow over a NACA0012 airfoil pertinent to aircraft icing phenomena  (Zhang, Tian, Hu, Exp. Fluids. 2015)

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• Research Highlights on Aircraft Icing Physics and Anti-/De-Icing (updated on 03/01/2020)

• 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!

• RA and/or TA positions for Ph.D. study are available.  Students with experimental fluid mechanics or aerodynamics background, especially with hands-on experiences of using optical diagnostic techniques such as LDV, PIV and LIF, are encouraged to apply

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