Wind Turbine Icing Physics and Anti-/De-Icing Technology. Wind Energy Engineering

Authors

Hui Hu Professor and Associate Department Chair, Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA. Dr. Hui Hu is the Martin C. Jischke Professor and Associate Dept. Chair of Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University. He received his BS and MS degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA) in China, and a PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tokyo in Japan. His recent research interests include advanced flow diagnostics; wind turbine aerodynamics and rotorcraft aeromechanics; aircraft icing physics and anti-icing/de-icing technology; micro-flows and micro-scale heat transfer in microfluidics; film cooling and thermal management of gas turbines. Dr. Hu is an ASME Fellow and AIAA Associate Fellow, and is serving as an editor of Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science-Elsevier and an associate editor of ASME Journal of Fluid Engineering. Linyue Gao Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA. Dr. Linyue Gao is current a postdoctoral research fellow at Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Minnesota. Dr. Gao obtained her BS and MS degrees from North China Electric Power University (NCEPU), Beijing, China and her PhD degree from Iowa State University. Her research interests is on wind energy, wind turbine icing physics and anti-/de-icing technology; wind turbine/farm aerodynamics and wake interference; Wind resource assessment & wind power forecasting Yang Liu Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The City College of New York, New York, USA. Dr. Liu is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, The City College of New York, New York, USA. Dr. Liu obtained his BS and MS degrees from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics(BUAA), Beijing, China and his PhD degree from Iowa State University. His research interests is on aircraft icing physics and anti-/de-icing technology; wind tunnel testing and experimental aerodynamics