Page • pyNUMAD Python-Numerical Manufacturing And Design Tool or pyNuMAD is an object-oriented, open-source software program written in Python which simplifies the process of creating a three-dimensional model of a wind turbine blade. The tool organizes all blade information including aerodynamic and material properties and material placement into an intuitive application programming interface for...
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Rachid Darbali-Zamora
Staff Page • Principal Member of Technical Staff. Biography Rachid Darbali-Zamora is a Principal Member of Technical Staff (PMTS) in the Resilient Energy and Distributed Systems Integration (RDSI) group at Sandia National Laboratories. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico- Mayagüez in 2013 and 2016,...
Radar Friendly Blades
Page • Radar Friendly Blades A representative Doppler spectrum showing the impact of multiple blade rotations (red signals) on the radar background signal. Some wind farms have the potential to cause interference with the normal operation of radar systems used for security, weather forecasting, and air-traffic control. An object’s shape, material, size,...
Randy Brost
Staff Page • Concentrating Solar Optics Laboratory Lead. Biography Randy Brost leads optical metrology research within Sandia National Laboratories’ Concentrating Solar Technologies group. His work focuses on developing improvements to indoor and outdoor heliostat optical metrology to benefit the CSP industry, research and education. He is trained as a computer scientist, and throughout...
Randy Shurtz
Staff Page • Mechanical Engineer, Fire Science. Biography Randy has worked in the Fire Sciences and Technology Department at Sandia since 2016. His research interests include advancing understanding and predictive capabilities in areas relevant to fire safety, including thermal testing in fire scenarios and modeling of thermal runaway in lithium ion battery systems....
Ray Byrne
Staff Page • Program Manager, Energy Storage. Biography Ray Byrne is manager of the Energy Storage program at Sandia National Laboratories where he has been employed since 1989. Prior serving as manager, he was a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff. He completed a B.S. in electrical engineering at the University of Virginia,...
Recently installed spinner lidar to improve accuracy, prediction of Sandia and wind industry simulation tools
News Article, July 10, 2023 • Sandia National Laboratories’ Wind Energy Technologies researchers successfully installed and deployed the spinner lidar on the hub of a General Electric wind turbine in Lubbock, Texas. The instrument was deployed as part of a cooperative research agreement between Sandia, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and GE for the Rotor Aerodynamics,...
Record-Breaking, Ultrafast Devices Step to Protecting the Grid from EMPs
News Article, April 6, 2022 • New Sandia diode can shunt excess electricity in a few billionths of a second Scientists from Sandia National Laboratories have announced a tiny, electronic device that can shunt excess electricity within a few billionths of a second while operating at a record-breaking 6,400 volts — a significant step towards protecting...
Reed Wittman
Staff Page • Materials Scientist. Biography Reed earned his BSE in Material Science Engineering at Arizona State University in 2013. He then went on to complete a PhD in Energy Science and Engineering through the Bredesen Center, an interdisciplinary degree program centered on all aspects of energy, at the University Tennessee and Oak...
Reference Model Project (RMP)
Page • The Reference Model Project (RMP), sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), was a partnered effort to develop open-source marine hydrokinetic (MHK) point designs as reference models (RMs) to benchmark MHK technology performance and costs, and an open-source methodology for design and analysis of MHK technologies, including models for...
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