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Ph.D. Candidate

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Electrical Engineering, Sc.B.

Brown University

with Honors

An analytical model for rotors in confined flow across operating regimes

I. M. L. Upfal, K. J. McClure, K. S. Heck, S. Pieris, J. W. Kurelek, M. Hultmark, and M. F. Howland.

Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1045, A3

Full dynamic similarity experiments and predictive modeling of wind turbine aerodynamics across control strategies

J. W. Kurelek, I. M. L. Upfal, S. Pieris, K. S. Heck, A. Piqué, M. Hultmark, and M. F. Howland.

PNAS Nexus, 5(10), pgag303

Shape-morphing membranes augment the performance of oscillating foil energy harvesting turbines

I. M. L. Upfal, Y. Zhu, E. Handy-Cardenas, and K. Breuer.

Physical Review Fluids, 10(3), 034702

Selected as Editor's Suggestion

Joint Yaw-Induction Control Optimization for Wind Farms

K. S. Heck, J. Liew, I. M. L. Upfal, and M. F. Howland.

Wind Energy Science

In review

Best Poster Award (Runner up)

EUROMECH Recent Advances in Turbulent Wind Farm Dynamics Colloquium

TVML Fellowship

MIT

Best Poster Award

MIT CEE Research Day Symposium

Editor's Suggestion

Physical Review Fluids

MathWorks Fellowship

MIT

Exemplary Mentoring Fellowship

MIT

Robert E. Thurber and Louis Berger Fellowship

MIT

Halpin Prize for Senior Capstone Projects

Brown University

Sigma Xi Honors Society

Brown University

Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honors Society

Brown University

Research Assistant

Howland Lab, Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT

SULI Research Intern

Building Technologies and Science Center, NREL

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Breuer Lab, Brown University

MIT Summer Research Program Mentor

Undergraduate Research Opportunity Mentor

MIT Summer Research Program Co-mentor

A new joint yaw and induction control paradigm revealed by Unified rotor modeling and validation

I. M. L. Upfal, J. W. Kurelek, S. Pieris, K. S. Heck, M. Hultmark, and M. F. Howland.

EUROMECH Recent Advances in Turbulent Wind Farm Dynamics Colloquium

Best Poster Award (Runner up)

An Analytical Model for Rotors in Confined Flow Across Operating Regimes

I. M. L. Upfal, K. J. McClure, K. S. Heck, S. Pieris, J. W. Kurelek, M. Hultmark, and M. F. Howland.

CEE Research Day Symposium

An analytical model for rotors in confined flow across operating regimes

I. M. L. Upfal, K. J. McClure, K. S. Heck, S. Pieris, J. W. Kurelek, M. Hultmark, and M. F. Howland.

NAWEA/WindTech

Unified rotor modeling: experimental validation at full dynamic similarity and implications for turbine design and flow control

I. M. L. Upfal, J. W. Kurelek, S. Pieris, K. S. Heck, J. Liew, M. Hultmark, M. F. Howland.

American Physical Society: Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting

Experimental validation of a Unified rotor model with full dynamic similarity wind tunnel experiments

I. M. L. Upfal, J. W. Kurelek, S. Pieris, K. S. Heck, J. Liew, M. Hultmark, M. F. Howland.

NAWEA / WindTech

Co-optimization of wind farm layout with collective turbine control

I. M. L. Upfal and M. F. Howland.

CEE Research Day Symposium

Best Poster Award

Control co-design of wind farms using joint yaw-induction control

I. M. L. Upfal and M. F. Howland.

American Physical Society: Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting

Co-optimizing layout and joint yaw-thrust control to design cost-effective and profitable wind farms

I. M. L. Upfal and M. F. Howland.

North American Wind Energy Association (NAWEA/WindTech) Conference

Improving wind farm profitability and space efficiency by co-designing turbine layout and control

I. M. L. Upfal and M. F. Howland.

MIT CEE Research Day Symposium

Compliant membranes to augment oscillating foil energy harvesting

I. M. L. Upfal, Y. Zhu, E. Handy-Cardenas, J. Newbolt, and K. Breuer.

American Physical Society: Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting

Optimal energy harvesting kinematics for compliant membrane hydrofoils

I. M. L. Upfal, Y. Zhu, and K. Breuer.

American Physical Society: Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting

CEE Graduate Application Advisor

CEE Graduate Assistance Program, MIT