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About Our Team
Mr. Dean Davis
VP of Engineering
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah B.S. Mechanical Engineering, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California
Dean has always been passionate about wind power and in his early school years even built a Small Wind Turbine. Dean is a founding partner of Windward Engineering and started the Wind Energy consulting company in 1994 with Dr. Craig Hansen For the last 13 years Dean has been testing and designing small and large wind turbines and has over thirteen years of experience in the field of wind energy with a strong emphasis in computer aided design and small wind turbine testing.
Dean is well known for many of his published papers including his work on wind turbine aerodynamic subroutines. Dean and Windward Engineering have worked closely with the US National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) and The US Department of Energy (DOE) for a number of years.
Published Papers:
Davis, D.A., A.C. Hansen, Laino, D.J. (2003)
"Estimates of Maximum Design Loads for a Whisper H40 Using Extrapolation Methods",
Proceedings, Windpower 2003, American Wind Energy Association Washington, D.C.
Presented at Windpower 2003 Conference, Austin, TX, May 2003.
Jonkman J., van Dam Jeroen, Davis, D.A. and Forsyth T.
"Investigation of the IEC Safety Standard for Small Wind Turbine Design Through Modeling and Testing",
Technical Paper AIAA-03, ASME Wind Energy Symposium, Reno, NV, January 2003.
Davis, D.A., and A.C. Hansen, (2002)
"Operation and Load Measurements During Extreme Wind Events for a Southwest Windpower Whisper H40",
Proceedings, Windpower 2002, American Wind Energy Association Washington, D.C.
Presented at Windpower 2002 Conference, Portland, OR, May 2002.
Davis, D.A., and A.C. Hansen, (2001)
"Performance, Reliability and Adams Model Predictions of a Small Furling Wind Turbine (Southwest Windpower Whisper H40)",
Proceedings, Windpower 2001, American Wind Energy Association Washington, D.C.
Presented at Windpower 2001 Conference, Washington D.C., May 2001.
Davis, D.A. and A.C. Hansen (1996)
"Test and Analysis Results for Two Synergy Power Corp. Wind Turbines",
Windpower '96, Denver, CO, American Wind Energy Association.
Davis, D. A. (1996)
"Using ADAMS for Wind Turbine Modeling: Conception to Comparisons with ESI-80 Test Data",
M.S. Thesis, University of Utah.
Laino, D.J., Davis, D.A., Pierce, K.G., Minnema, J.E., and Hansen, A.C.
"Computer Modeling of Wind Turbine Systems",
Proceedings of Windpower '94, the American Wind Energy Association Conference, Minneapolis, MN, May 1994.
Davis, D.A. and A. C. Hansen, 1993
"The Potential for Using ADAMS® for Wind-Turbine Modeling."
ASME Wind Energy Conference, Houston, TX.
