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The first Wind Energy SIG group meeting is taking place on June 16, 2011 at the 6th OpenFOAM workshop. The SIGs are meeting in 116 EES (Earth-Engineering Sciences) on the PSU campus.

The point of the SIG meetings are to introduce ourselves to on another, share how we use OpenFOAM and share the difficulties we are currently working through. If you are interested in putting together a short presentation (<10 min), please contact one of the session leaders.

Here is a list of the presentations that we currently have lined up and their respective topics.

1 Session 1 (8:30 - 10:00 am): Atmospheric Boundary Layers

1.1 Dr. Matthew Churchfield

U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory: National Wind Technology Center

Actuator lines in LES
Wind farm modeling

1.2 Ganesh Vijayakumar

The Pennsylvania State University

Accurate Law-of-the-Wall modelling in LES
Channel flow

1.3 Dr. Robert Benoit

École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS): Montreal, Canada

3D Channel LES
Neutral stratification with coriolis and large-scale pressure force

1.4 Frank Zajaczkowski

The Applied Research Laboratory at Pennsylvania State

WRF - CFD coupling

2 Session 2 (10:30 am - 12:00 noon): Wind Turbine Aerodynamics

2.1 Adam Lavely