Grants
DCSE, €80,000, 2022-2023
Reliable estimation of extreme wind gusts over the North Sea: A convolutional neural network-based framework
PI: Sukanta Basu; co-PI: Simon Watson
NWO, €250,000 (Basu's group), 2021-2026
Optical wireless surperhighways
Lead organization: TU-Delft
PI: Eberhard Gill, co-PI: Sukanta Basu (one of several)
Horizon 2020, €900,00 (TU-D portion), 2021-2025
EUropean - Scalable and Complementary Offshore Renewable Energy Sources (EU-SCORES)
Lead organization: Dutch Marine Energy Centre (DMEC)
co-PI from TU-Delft: George Lavidas and Sukanta Basu
TKI Wind Op Zee, €462,869 (TU-D portion), 2020-2022
WINS50: Winds of the North Sea in 2050.
Lead PI: Whiffle BV.; co-PI: Sukanta Basu and others
https://projecten.topsectorenergie.nl/projecten/winds-of-the-north-sea-in-2050-00033174
Carbon Trust, £ 44,680, 2017-2018
Boundary layer profiling for improved wind resource project.
Lead PI: Sukanta Basu; co-PI: Simon Watson, DUWIND, TU Delft
NSF-AGS Program, EAGER, $63,189, 2016-2017
Identifying the limitations of the contemporary planetary boundary layer schemes using an extended self-similarity-based framework
PI: Sukanta Basu
NSF-CBET Program, Energy for Sustainability, $199,810 (NCSU portion), 2013-2016
On retrospective assessment and future projection of thunderstorm impacts on wind turbines.
Lead PI: Lance Manuel, Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, co-PI: Sukanta Basu
Air Force Office of Scientific Research, $500,000 (NCSU portion), 2012-2016
Wave optics of deep atmospheric turbulence: From underlying physics towards predictive modeling, mitigation and exploitation.
Lead PI: Mikhail Vorontsov, Professor and Wright Brothers Institute Endowed Chair, University of Dayton, co-PI: Sukanta Basu
U.S. Department of Energy, $75,631 (NCSU portion), 2010-2012
Enhancing short-term wind energy forecasting for improved utility operations.
Lead organization: AWS Truepower, co-PI: Sukanta Basu
Renaissance Computing Institute, $82,757, 2011-2014
Micro-siting of wind turbines over complex terrains utilizing the OpenFOAM CFD toolbox and the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model.
PI: Sukanta Basu
NSF-CBET Program, Energy for Sustainability, $123,140 (NCSU portion), 2010-2013
On turbine loads assessment for ultimate and fatigue limit states for different atmospheric boundary layer stability conditions.
Lead PI: Lance Manuel, Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, co-PI: Sukanta Basu
NSF-CAREER Award, $505,000, 2008-2014
Towards better representations of the nocturnal low-level jets in new generation large-eddy and mesoscale models.
PI: Sukanta Basu
Texas Norman Hackerman Advanced Research Program, $51,776 (TTU portion), 2008-2011
Atmospheric stability consideration in the design of wind turbine against fatigue failure.
Lead PI: Lance Manuel, Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, co-PI: Sukanta Basu
NSF-Polar Program, $173,000, 2006-2010
Understanding, parameterizing and modeling the strongly stratified atmospheric boundary layer processes over the Antarctic Plateau.
PI: Sukanta Basu
Texas Tech University - Research Development Grant, $1,000,000, 2006-2009
Innovative technologies to investigate fine-scale atmospheric motions and their impact.
One of 5 PIs
Texas Advanced Research Program, $86,000, 2006-2009
Characterization and simulation of turbulence in stably stratified atmospheric boundary layer flows.
Lead PI: Sukanta Basu, co-PI: Kathleen Gilliam, Mathematics, Texas Tech University