Publications

Our publications and presentations:

• Sarah Barber, Machine learning in sitespecific wind turbine power curve prediction, Energy Data Hackdays 2020.
• Sarah Barber, The role of machine learning in site-specific wind turbine power curve prediction, Data Science in Climate and Climate Impact Research Workshop, ETH Zurich 2020.
• Alain Schubiger, Sarah Barber, and Henrik Nordborg, Evaluation of the Lattice Boltzmann Method for wind modelling in complex terrain, Wind Energy Science Journal 2020.
• Sarah Barber, Alain Schubiger and Henrik Nordborg, A new process for the pragmatic choice of wind models in complex terrain – quantification of "skill score" and "cost", Wind Energy Science Conference, Cork, Ireland, June 2019.
• Sarah Barber, Simon Boller and Henrik Nordborg, Feasibility study for 100% renewable energy microgrids with medium-sized wind turbines in Switzerland, Wind Energy Science Conference, Cork, Ireland, June 2019.
• Alain Schubiger, Sarah Barber and Henrik Nordborg, Evaluation of the Lattice Boltzmann Method for wind modelling in complex terrain, Wind Energy Science Conference, Cork, Ireland, June 2019.
• Sarah Barber and Henrik Nordborg, Comparison of simulations and wind tunnel measurements for the improvement of design tools for Vertical Axis Wind Turbines, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 1102, 2018.
• Sarah Barber, Hybride Lösungen für eine zuverlässige Stromversorgung der Zukunft, Energie Experten, September 2018.
• Henrik Nordborg, Validierte Simulationen einer vertikalachsigen Windturbine, ANSYS Users' Conference, Juni 2018

 

Our blogs:

• Blog Henrik Nordborg
• Blog Sarah Barber
• Blog CAE@HSR

 

You can meet us at the following events:

2021:

• Wind Energy Science Conference, Hannover, 2021.
• The Third Swiss Wind Energy R&D Forum, 8 May 2021, Rapperswil.

2020:

• WindEurope Conference, 22-24 September 2020, Hamburg (DE).
• The Science of Making Torque From Wind Conference, 28 Sep-2 Oct 2020, ONLINE.
• Energy Hackdays 2020.
• Data Science in Climate and Climate Impact Research Workshop, ETH Zurich, 20-21.08.2020, ONLINE
• The Second Swiss Wind Energy R&D Forum, 16 Sep 2020, ONLINE.

 

Previous:

• Smart Maintenance Conference, 3 September 2019, Zürich (CH).

• Wind Energy Science Conference, 17-20 June 2019, Cork (IR).
• REM Forum, 23-24 May 2019, St. Gallen (CH).
• The First Swiss Wind Energy R&D Conference, 15 May 2019, Rapperswil (CH).
• The Science of Making Torque From Wind Conference, 22-24 June 2018, Milan (IT).
• WindEurope 2018 Conference at the Global Wind Summit, 25 - 28 September 2018, Hamburg (DE).
• Smart Maintenance Conference, 4 September 2018, Zürich (CH).
• The Science of Making Torque From Wind Conference, 22-24 June 2018, Milan (IT).

Peer-reviewed articles

S. Barber and H. Nordborg (2018), Comparison of simulations and wind tunnel measurements for the improvement of design tools for Vertical Axis Wind Turbines, Journal of Physics Conference Series 1102:012002;

S. Barber, S. Mechler and M. Nitschke (2016), The eect of wakes on the fatigue damage of wind turbine components over their entire lifetime using short-term load measurements, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 753, 072022;

S. Barber, N. Chokani and R.S. Abhari (2013), Eect of Wake Flow Non-Uniformity on Wind Turbine Performance and Aerodynamics, ASME Journal of Turbomachinery, Vol. 135, 011012;

C. Tsalicoglou, S. Barber, N. Chokani and R.S. Abhari (2012), Eect of Flow Inclination on Wind Turbine Performance, ASME J. Eng. Gas Turbines Power, Vol. 134(12), 122601;

S. Barber, Y.Wang, S. Jafari, N. Chokani and R.S. Abhari (2011), The Impact of Ice Formation on Wind Turbine Performance and Aerodynamics, ASME Journal of Solar Energy Engineering
133(1), 011007;

S. Barber, N. Chokani and R.S. Abhari (2011), Assessment of Wind Turbine Performance in Alpine Environments, Wind Engineering 35(3), 313-328;

M.J. Carre and S. Barber (2012), A Novel Sports Ball Aerodynamics Analysis Tool: Soccer Ball Design, Sports Technology;

S. Barber and M.J. Carre (2010), The eect of surface geometry on soccer ball trajectories, Sports Engineering 13(1), 47-55;

S. Barber, S.B. Chin and M.J. Carre (2009), Sports ball aerodynamics: a numerical study of the erratic motion of soccer balls, Computers and Fluids 38(6), 1091-1100;

S. Barber, S.J. Haake and M.J. Carre (2006), Soccer ball trajectory simulation, Journal of Biomechanics 39(Suppl 1);

Book contributions

S. Barber and M.J. Carre (2009), Soccer ball aerodynamics, in Computational Fluid Dynamics for Sport Simulation, Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering 72 (ed. M. Peters), Springer Verlag, 83-102;

K. Seo, S. Barber, T. Asai, M.J. Carre and O. Kobayashi (2009), The flight trajectory of a non-spinning soccer ball, in The Impact of Technology on Sport II 72 (ed. Franz Konstantin Fuss, Aleksandar Subic, Sadayuki Ujihashi), CRC Press;

Conference papers

S. Barber, K. Ettlin, M. Ammann, M. Righi (2013), Entwicklung eines analytischen Modells fur die Auslegung einer neuartigen Windkraftanlage, Internationales Forum Mechatronik, Winterthur, Schweiz;

S. Barber, N. Chokani and R.S. Abhari (2011), Eect of Wake Flow Non-Uniformity on Wind Turbine Performance and Aerodynamics, IGTI Conference (ASME), Vancouver;

S. Barber, N. Chokani and R.S. Abhari (2011), Wind Turbine Performance and Aerodynamics in Wakes within Wind Farms, European Wind Energy Conference, Brussels;

C. Kress, S. Barber, N. Chokani and R. S. Abhari (2011), Improved Modeling of Wakes: Experimental Study and Experimentally Anchored Model, European Wind Energy Association Offshore Conference, Amsterdam;

S. Barber, Y.Wang, S. Jafari, N. Chokani and R.S. Abhari (2010), The Impact of Ice Formation on Wind Turbine Performance and Aerodynamics, European Wind Energy Conference, Warsaw;

S. Barber, Y. Wang, S. Jafari, N. Chokani and R.S. Abhari (2009), The Effect of Ice Shapes on Wind Turbine Performance and Aerodynamics, International Workshop on Atmospheric Icing of Structures, Andermatt;

S. Barber, K. Seo, T. Asai and M.J. Carre (2007), Investigating the eects of orientation on the flight of a non-spinning soccer ball, Asia-Pacic Congress on Sports Technology, Singapore;

K. Seo, S. Barber, T. Asai and M.J. Carre (2007), The unsteady forces acting on a non-spinning soccer ball, Asia-Pacic Congress on Sports Technology, Singapore;

K. Seo, S. Barber, T. Asai, M.J. Carre and O. Kobayashi (2007), An Experimental study on unsteady aerodynamic forces acting on a non-spinning soccer ball, Mechanical Engineering Congress, Japan (MECJ-07).

E. Rodriguez-Falcon and S. Barber (2007), Making a dierence with sports engineering and enterprise education, International Technology, Education & Development Conference, Valencia;

S. Barber, S.J. Haake and M.J. Carre (2006), Using CFD to understand the eect of seams on soccer ball aerodynamics, The 6th International Conference on the Engineering of Sport, 2, pp.127-132;

S. Barber and M.J. Carre (2005), Understanding the eects of surface geometry on sports ball aerodynamics, Asia-Pacic Congress on Sports Technology, pp. 221-226;

S. Barber and M.J. Carre (2005), The aerodynamics of soccer balls, Fluent User Group Meeting, pp. 77-90;

Videos

Lecture "History and Potentials of Wind Energy", University of Kassel Summer School (2019): in production

Image Film, Fraunhofer Society (2016): www.youtube.com/watch

TV broadcast on Deutschlands Forschung, Bayerischer Rundfunk (2016): www.br.de/mediathek/video/deutschlands-forschung-das-fraunhofer-iwes-institutfuer-windenergie-und-energiesystemtechnik-av:584f8e813b46790011a39a99

Dr. Sarah Barber
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sarah.barber(at)hsr.ch