Dr.ir. D.J.N. (Dries) Allaerts

Dr.ir. D.J.N. (Dries) Allaerts

Profile

Expertise

  • Wind-farm flow dynamics
  • Boundary-layer meteorology
  • Atmospheric stability
  • Atmospheric gravity waves
  • Computational fluid dynamics
  • High-performance computing
  • Scientific programming

Current position

  • Assistant Professor (Wind Energy), TU Delft (AE), 2020 -- current

Previous positions

  • R&D engineer, Diabatix (BE), 2019 -- 2020
  • Postdoctoral researcher, NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory; US), 2018 -- 2019
  • Postdoctoral researcher, KU Leuven (BE), 2016 -- 2018
  • PhD researcher, KU Leuven (BE), 2012 -- 2016

Education

  • PhD in Mechanical Engineering, KU Leuven (BE), 2016
  • MSc in Energy Engineering, KU Leuven (BE), 2012
  • BSc in Mechanical Engineering, KU Leuven (BE), 2010

Find me on ...

Biography

Dries Allaerts is a Tenure Track Assistant Professor at the faculty of Aerospace Engineering in the Wind Energy Section. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Boulder, CO, US, and at KU Leuven in Belgium. He obtained his PhD at the same university in 2016.


His research interests cover the development of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) techniques and their application to wind-farm flow dynamics in realistic atmospheric conditions. Two particular areas of interest are Mesoscale-to-Microscale Coupling (MMC) and regional-scale flow effects caused by wind farms, such as upstream flow blockage, extended downstream wake regions, and self-induced gravity waves.

Read more

Expertise

Publications

Courses 2023

Courses 2022

Media

Ancillary activities