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Mark Miller

Assistant Professor

Affiliation(s):

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Center for Acoustics and Vibration

Research Areas:

Computational and Experimental Fluid Dynamics; Wind Energy

Interest Areas:

Unsteady fluid dynamics, wind turbine aerodynamics, separation and stall in rotating systems, and sensor development.

 
 

 

Education

  • BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky, 2011
  • MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky, 2013
  • Ph D, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, 2018

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Alexander Pique, Mark A Miller and Marcus Hultmark, 2022, "Laboratory Investigation of the Near and Intermediate Wake of a Wind Turbine at Very High Reynolds Numbers", Experiments in Fluids, 63, (6), pp. 13
  • Alexander Pique, Mark A Miller and Marcus Hultmark, 2022, "Dominant flow features in the wake of a wind turbine at high Reynolds numbers", Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, 14, (3), pp. 20
  • Mark Aaron Miller, Subrahmanyam Duvvuri and Marcus Hultmark, 2021, "Solidity Effects on the Performance of Vertical Axis Wind Turbines", FLOW Journal, 1, pp. 15
  • Anis A Ayati, Konstantinos Steiros, Mark Miller, Subrahmanyam Duvvuri and Marcus Hultmark, 2019, "A double-multiple streamtube model for vertical axis wind turbines of arbitrary rotor loading", Wind Energy Science, 4, (4), pp. 653--662
  • Mark Miller, Janik Kiefer, Carsten Westergaard, Martin O. L. Hansen and Marcus Hultmark, 2019, "Horizontal axis wind turbine testing at high Reynolds numbers", Physical Review Fluids, 4, (110504), pp. 22
  • Mark Miller, Subrahmanyam Duvvuri, Ian Brownstein, Marcus Lee, John O. Dabiri and Marcus Hultmark, 2018, "Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Experiments at Full Dynamic Similarity", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 844, pp. 707--720
  • Mark Miller, Baraheh Estejab and Sean C. C. Bailey, 2014, "Evaluation of hot-wire spatial filtering corrections for wall turbulence and correction for end-conduction effects", Experiments in Fluids, 55, (1735), pp. 13
  • Mark Miller, Alexandre Martin and Sean C. C. Bailey, 2014, "Investigation of the scaling of roughness and blowing effects on turbulent channel flow", Experiments in Fluids, 55, (1675), pp. 11

Research Projects

Honors and Awards

Service

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About

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