Victor Mendoza

Adjunct lecturer at Department of Electrical Engineering; Division of Electricity

E-mail:: victor.mendoza@angstrom.uu.se
Visiting address:: Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1
752 37 UPPSALA
Postal address:: Box 65
751 03 UPPSALA

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ORCID:: 0000-0001-5006-9231

Short presentation

My work focuses on wind turbine aerodynamics and energy systems for extreme and resource-constrained environments, from floating offshore wind to deployable wind turbines for off-grid and space applications. At Uppsala University, I model multi-rotor wind concepts (ADM/ALM). I also lead energy yield work for floating offshore wind at Hexicon, and I am co-founder and CEO of Red Winds, an Uppsala University spin-off developing a lightweight, deployable wind turbine.

www.redwinds.eu

Keywords

wind turbine aerodynamics
actuator line model
actuator disc model
multi-rotor wind turbines
vertical axis wind turbines
savonius turbines with straight and twisted blades
cfd and hpc in openfoam
wake interaction and wake deflection
floating offshore wind
wind resource and energy yield assessment
gis data analysis
deployable wind turbines
off-grid energy systems
energy for extreme environments
technology transfer
innovation and entrepreneurship in energy

Publications

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Chapters in book

Computational methods for vertical axis wind turbines

Goude, Anders; Mendoza, Victor

Part of Small wind and hydrokinetic turbines, p. 71-107, Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2021
- DOI for Computational methods for vertical axis wind turbines

Comprehensive doctoral thesis

Aerodynamic Studies of Vertical Axis Wind Turbines using the Actuator Line Model

Mendoza, Victor

2018
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Conference papers

Validation of an Actuator Line Model Coupled to a Dynamic Stall Model for Pitching Motions Characteristic to Vertical Axis Turbines

Mendoza, Victor; Bachant, Peter; Wosnik, Martin; Goude, Anders

Part of Science Of Making Torque From Wind (Torque 2016), 2016
- DOI for Validation of an Actuator Line Model Coupled to a Dynamic Stall Model for Pitching Motions Characteristic to Vertical Axis Turbines
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Validation of an Actuator Line Model Coupled to a Dynamic Stall Model for Pitching Motions Characteristic to Vertical Axis Turbines

Mendoza, Victor; Goude, Anders

2016
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