Control Mechanical Engineer

Zhongzhou Yang

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SPECIALTIES:

Finite Element Method (FEM)

Structural Mechanics and Vibration Analysis

Controller Design (Model Predictive Control, Extremum Seeking Control)

Computational Fluid Dynamics, Aerodynamics

Build analytical Vibration or flow models for stability analysis and

controller design

Digital Signal Processing

Install, test, operate and maintain wind turbines including hydraulic

subsystem

SKILLS: Programming: Matlab, C, Fortran 90, Assembly Laguange

Software: Matlab, Simulink, ANSYS, Fluent, CFX, Gridgen, ADAMS,

SolidWorks, ProE, FAST, TurbSim, Bladed, AeroDyn, Mcrunch

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Minor:Electrical Engineering,

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Thesis: Load Reduction Control of Wind Turbines in Farm and

Offshore Operation

Oct. 2008 -April. 2013

(expected)

M.Sc. Fluid Mechanics (Aerodynamics), Beijing University of

Aeronautics and Astronautics,

Thesis: High-resolution Finite Element Method for Compressible

Flow

Beijing, China, Sep 2004-April 2007

B.Sc. Engineering Mechanics, Taiyuan University of Science and

Technology,

Thesis: Vibration Analysis of a Moving Cylindrical Shell under

Water

Taiyuan, China, Sep 2000-June 2004

EXPERIENCE:

Research Associate/Visiting Lab Assistant at University of Texas at

Dallas, Sep 1st, 2011-present

. Dual-Mode Model Predictive Control of Wind Turbine for

Vibration Mitigation;

. Vane Control to Mitigate Vibration of Floating Offshore Wind

Turbine;

. Dynamics simulation of offshore wind turbine including

vertical and horizontal vanes;

. Derive Analytical Wind Turbine Model for Controller Design

based on BEM theory;

. Robust Model Predictive Control of Wind Turbine;

. Extremum Seeking Control of Wind Farm for Maximizing Energy

Capture;

Research Assistant at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,

Oct 2008-August 2011

. Individual Pitch Control of Wind Turbines for Vibration

Mitigation;

. Fault Diagnosis of Wind Turbine Gearbox by use of ANSYS;

. Wind Turbine Wake Meandering Modeling by use of Spectral

Method;

. Wind Turbine Wake Modeling;

Mechanical Engineer at GoldWind Science and Technology, Beijing,China,

April 07- Sep 08

. Install, test, operate and maintain wind turbines including

hydraulic subsystems;

. Fatigue and extreme loads calculation of wind turbine using

Bladed;

. Controller Design to Reduce Vibration of Wind Turbine Tower ;

. Thermal Analysis of Wind Turbine Generator by use of ANSYS

CFX;

Research Assistant at National Computational Fluid Dynamics Lab,

Beijing, Sep 04 - April 07

. High-resolution finite element schemes for compressible flow

;

. Inverse of large sparse matrix;

. Streamline-upwind Petrov/Galerkin method (SUPG) for

incompressible flow;

JOURNAL PAPERS:

. Yang, Z., Seem, J.E. and Li, Y., " Maximizing Wind Farm Energy Capture

via Nested-loop Extremum Seeking Control," in preparation for

submission to Journal of Wind Energy

. Yang, Z., and Li, Y., "Vane Control to Stabilize Floating Offshore

Wind Turbine," in preparation for submission to Journal of Wind Energy

. Yang, Z., Li, Y. and Seem, J.E.,"Model Predictive Control for Wind

Turbine Load Reduction under Wake Meandering of Upstream Wind

Turbines," in preparation for submission to IEEE/ASME Transactions on

Mechatronics

. Yang, Z., Li, Y. and Seem, J.E., "Individual Pitch Control for Wind

Turbine Load

Reduction Including Wake Modeling," Journal of Wind Engineering, 2012,

35(6):715-738

. Yang, Z., and Lee, C., "A High Resolution Finite Element Procedure for

Compressible Flows Simulation", Journal of Beijing University of

Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2008,V34(02): 171-174

. Chen, Q., Li, Y., J.E. Seem, Z. Yang and J. Creaby. "Self-Optimizing

Robust Control

of Wind Power Generation with Doubly-Fed Induction Generator",

accepted by

ASME Journal of Solar Energy Engineering

. Wu, X.; Li, Y.; Li, F. and Yang, Z. "Adaptive Estimation Based Leakage

Detection for Wind Turbine Hydraulic Pitching System," IEEE

Transactions on Mechatronics, 2012, V17(5): 907-914

CONFERENCE PAPERS:

. Yang, Z., and Li, Y., "Vane Control to Stabilize Floating Offshore

Wind Turbine", accepted by 51th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting

including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition, January 9-

12th, 2013

. Yang, Z., Li, Y. and Seem, J.E.,"Load Reduction of Wind Turbines under

Wake Meandering with Model Predictive Control for Individual

Pitching", 50th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New

Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition, January 9-12th, 2012

. Yang, Z., Li, Y. and Seem, J.E., "Improved Individual Pitch Control

for Wind Farm Turbine Load Reduction via Wake Modeling," 49th AIAA

Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and

Aerospace Exposition, January 4-7, 2011, Orlando, Florida.

. Yang, Z., Li, Y. and Seem, J.E., "Individual Pitch Control for Wind

Turbine Load

Reduction Including Wake Modeling," 2010 ASME Dynamic Systems and

Control

Conference, September 13-15, Cambridge, MA.

AWARDS:

. Green Energy Summit Poster Competition Prize, Milwaukee, U.S., 2010

. Chancellor's Graduate Student Award (every semester), UW-Milwaukee,

U.S., 2009-2011

. "The best project group", in GoldWind, China, 2007

. Third-Rated prize in "Challenge cup for prospering Shanxi", China,

2003

. "Excellent Student in the College of Science", China, 2001

. First-Rated (2 times), Second-Rated(1 time), Third-Rated

Scholarship (2 times), China, 2000-2004

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