Mark C. Kelly
Assoc. Professor
Department of Wind and Energy Systems
DTU Vindenergi RAM, DTU Wind Energy Systems Division (WES)
Frederiksborgvej 399 P.O. Box 49
Building 125 Room 130
4000 Roskilde
dk
boundary-layer meteorology CFD large-eddy simulation LES probabilistic characterization wind gusts RANS atmospheric thermodynamics Synthetic turbulence Air-sea interaction WAsP Engineering Wind profiles Sea spray Graduate education (MS and PhD) Terrain characterization Wind Turbulence models flow-modelling mesoscale-microscale interaction Spectral analysis Micrometeorology WAsP complex terrain Turbulence spectra Atmospheric Turbulence computational fluid dynamics Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis Atmospheric stability Roughness
Research Interests / activity: Atmospheric stability modeling. Theory and representation of buoyancy effects in Rapid-Distortion Theory (RDT), Large-eddy simulation (LES), Reynolds-Average Navier-Stokes (RANS), and mesoscale models; profile theory beyond the surface-layer; second-moment statisticalrelations for ABL fields. Atmospheric turbulence/subgrid modelling. Representation of atmospheric turbulence and its multi-scale interaction with terrain, via LES, RANS, RDT, and quasi-linearized flow models. Scale-dependent terrain characterization. Terrain-induced drag; spectral and statistical representations; effective roughness; scale/resolution-dependent roughness. Mesoscale-microscale interaction. Adapting mesoscale output to drive linear and nonlinear (LES/RANS) microscale models; mesoscale and microscale sub-grid parameterization of turbulent fluxes. Probabilistic meteorological characterization. Statistical representation of observed and sampled fields and reduced normalized representations, for generalizable application in e.g. wind energy. Air-sea interaction and marine boundary layer. Effect of ocean waves on turbulent atmospheric fluxes; modeling it in microscale (e.g. large-eddy simulation [LES]) and mesoscale codes. Phase change and sea spray. Long-range noise propagation from wind turbines. Stability and terrain effects on propagation of turbine noise.