The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has developed a transient air conditioning (A/C) system model using SINDA/FLUINT analysis software. It captures all the relevant physics of transient A/C system performance, including two-phase flow effects in the evaporator and condenser, system mass effects, air side heat transfer on the condenser/evaporator, vehicle speed effects, temperature-d...

This paper briefly describes the implementation of a coupled near and far wake model for wind turbine rotor induction in the aeroelastic code HAWC2 and its application for flutter analysis of the NREL 5 MW wind turbine. The model consists of a far wake part based on Blade Element Momentum (BEM) theory, which is coupled with Beddoes’ near wake model for trailed vorticity. The first part of this ...

As one of the preferred types renewable energy, wind energy is rapidly growing. The purpose this study to provide a comprehensive and in-depth numerical analysis on National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) 5-MW offshore turbine help understand turbine’s aerodynamic features. In research, preprocessing was conducted by using SolidWorks modeling, realizable k-ε viscous model from ANSYS/FLUENT used as...

The High-Throughput Experimental Materials Database (HTEM-DB, htem.nrel.gov) is the endpoint repository for inorganic thin-film materials data collected during combinatorial experiments at National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). This asset enabled by NREL’s Research Data Infrastructure (RDI) – a set of custom tools that collect, process, and store experimental metadata. Here, we describe d...

Plasmalogens are a major sub-class of ethanolamine and choline phospholipids in which the sn-1 position has a long chain fatty alcohol attached through a vinyl ether bond. These phospholipids are proposed to play a role in membrane fusion-mediated events. In this study, we investigated the role of the ethanolamine plasmalogen plasmenylethanolamine (PlsEtn) in intracellular cholesterol transport...

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has commissioned a highly modified Westinghouse 600 kW wind turbine as its Controls Advanced Research Turbine (CART). The capabilities of the original turbine have been increased through the installation of a high-speed data-acquisition and control system, a widebandwidth variable-speed generation system, and a high-speed independent blade pitch s...