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Iowa State University

Better Wind Farms

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Iowa State engineers are using wind tunnel tests to study the effects of hilly terrain and turbine placement on power production. The research team includes, left to right, Ahmet Ozbay, a graduate student of aerospace engineering; Wei Ren, a visiting student from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China; Zifeng Yang, a former Iowa State post-doctoral research associate and now an assistant professor at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio; Hui Hu, an associate professor of aerospace engineering; Wei Tian, a postdoctoral research associate in aerospace engineering; and Kotaro Takeshima, a visiting student from Hokkaido University in Japan.

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Bob Elbert/Iowa State University

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