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Writing about: Wind Energy Research Reaps Rewards
Back in 1981, an engineer at NASA developed a model for how wind turbines operate in strong wind, which was mostly ignored by the scientific community at the time. However…
The wind energy program ended later that year, and both engineers moved along in their careers. Viterna became NASA Glenn’s Lead for Center Strategy and Business Development, and Corrigan went on to manage an International Space Station support project.Neither of them thought much about the paper until, on a whim, Viterna searched the Internet for his name and the word “wind.” Experts in the wind energy field commonly referred to the analytical model as “Viterna & Corrigan” or “the Viterna method.”
“I couldn’t believe it,” he said. “It had become the leading method for predicting wind turbine performance, and I had no idea this was going on.”