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

https://euscores.eu

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