Bulletin of the American Physical Society
73rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics
Volume 65, Number 13
Sunday–Tuesday, November 22–24, 2020; Virtual, CT (Chicago time)
Session N02: Invited Talk: On Fake Walls Along the USA/Mexico BorderInvited Live
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Chair: Mark Glauser, Syracuse University |
Monday, November 23, 2020 2:30PM - 3:05PM Live |
N02.00001: On Fake Walls Along the USA/Mexico Border Invited Speaker: Luciano Castillo Significant advances in technology offer unprecedented opportunities to bring the world together. However, recent mass migrations due to violence, lack of economic opportunities, and war have left many countries unprepared, and raised geopolitical tensions that led to man-made border dividers. Physical barriers also generate internal tension in many countries and exacerbate the rhetoric of “us” versus “them”. Moreover, mass migration will likely increase worldwide as climate change brings more extreme weather. In this talk, we detail the rationale for leveraging natural resources to produce renewable energy and water to create an economic corridor along the USA/Mexico border that will stimulate the economy and infrastructure development to mitigate migration. For instance, a frequent atmospheric phenomenon characterized by a relatively low- tropospheric maximum in the vertical profile of the horizontal winds, known as low-level jets (LLJ), may offer unexplored benefits to wind energy, specifically in the USA, South America, and the Caribbean. The processes modulating the interaction between LLJs and wind farms remain obscure; these include the role of the positive and negative mean shear around the velocity peak. By producing a synthetic LLJ under well-controlled laboratory conditions, we show that this phenomenon may enhance energy entrainment in the wake of wind turbines, and bring unique energy production in states along the USA/Mexico border. [Preview Abstract] |
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