For further information see my personal webpage https://stevensrjam.github.io/Website/

For more info about Richard Stevens on the 'Featured Scientists' page, click below:

Expertise

  • Physics

    • Convection
    • Model
    • Heat Transfer
    • Rotation
    • Boundary Layer
    • Regimes
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

    • Large Eddy Simulation
    • Turbine

Organisations

Publications

Jump to: 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021

2026

Wake-induced variations in noise levels and amplitude modulation for two interacting wind turbines (2026)The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 159(4), 3048-3061. Colas, J., Emmanuelli, A., Dragna, D. & Stevens, R. J. A. M.https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0043240Impact of atmospheric turbulence on performance and loads of wind turbines: knowledge gaps and research challenges (2026)Wind Energy Science, 11(2), 509-555. Kosović, B., Basu, S., Berg, J., Berg, L. K., Haupt, S. E., Larsén, X. G., Peinke, J., Stevens, R. J. A. M., Veers, P. & Watson, S.https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-11-509-2026From turbine-scale to wind farm-scale wake recovery: Understanding the transition (2026)Journal of renewable and sustainable energy (AIP), 18(1). Article 013302. Kasper, J. H. & Stevens, R. J. A. M.https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0285347

2024

How wide must Rayleigh–BĂ©nard cells be to prevent finite aspect ratio effects in turbulent flow? (2024)Journal of fluid mechanics, 1000. Article A58. Stevens, R. J. A. M., Hartmann, R., Verzicco, R. & Lohse, D.https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2024.996Scaling relations for heat and momentum transport in sheared Rayleigh–BĂ©nard convection (2024)Journal of fluid mechanics, 1000. Article A74. Yerragolam, G. S., Howland, C. J., Stevens, R. J. A. M., Verzicco, R., Shishkina, O. & Lohse, D.https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2024.872The global properties of nocturnal stable atmospheric boundary layers (2024)Journal of fluid mechanics, 999. Article A60. Shen, Z., Liu, L., Lu, X. & Stevens, R. J. A. M.https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2024.969Simulation and modeling of wind farms in baroclinic atmospheric boundary layers (2024)Journal of renewable and sustainable energy (AIP), 16(6). Article 063302. Kasper, J. H., Stieren, A. & Stevens, R. J. A. M.https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0220322Impact of a two-dimensional steep hill on wind turbine noise propagation (2024)Wind Energy Science, 9(10), 1869-1884. Colas, J., Emmanuelli, A., Dragna, D., Blanc-Benon, P., Cotté, B. & Stevens, R. J. A. M.https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1869-2024Geostrophic Drag Law in Conventionally Neutral Atmospheric Boundary Layer: Simplified Parametrization and Numerical Validation (2024)Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 190(8). Article 37. Liu, L., Lu, X. & Stevens, R. J. A. M.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10546-024-00878-6Effects of wind turbine rotor tilt on large-scale wind farms (2024)Journal of physics: Conference series, 2767(9). Article 092072. Kasper, J. H. & Stevens, R. J. A. M.https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2767/9/092072Effect of airflow rate on CO2 concentration in downflow indoor ventilation (2024)Indoor Environments, 1(2). Article 100012. Yerragolam, G. S., Howland, C. J., Yang, R., Stevens, R. J. A. M., Verzicco, R. & Lohse, D.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indenv.2024.100012Turbulence coherence in wind farms: The role of turbines (2024)Journal of physics: Conference series, 2767(9). Article 092108. Liu, Y. & Stevens, R. J. A. M.https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2767/9/092108Toward Understanding Polar Heat Transport Enhancement in Subglacial Oceans on Icy Moons (2024)Geophysical research letters, 51(3). Article e2023GL105401. Hartmann, R., Stevens, R. J. A. M., Lohse, D. & Verzicco, R.https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105401

2023

Wind turbine sound propagation: Comparison of a linearized Euler equations model with parabolic equation methods (2023)The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 154(3), 1413-1426. Colas, J., Emmanuelli, A., Dragna, D., Blanc-Benon, P., Cotté, B. & Stevens, R. J. A. M.https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0020834Optimal heat transport in rotating Rayleigh-BĂ©nard convection at large Rayleigh numbers (2023)Physical review fluids, 8(8). Article 083501 . Hartmann, R., Yerragolam, G. S., Verzicco, R., Lohse, D. & Stevens, R. J. A. M.https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.8.083501The Mean Wind and Potential Temperature Flux Profiles in Convective Boundary Layers (2023)Journal of the atmospheric sciences, 80(8), 1893-1903. Liu, L., Gadde, S. N. & Stevens, R. J. A. M.https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0159.1Understanding wind farm power densities (2023)Journal of fluid mechanics, 958. Article F1. Stevens, R. J. A. M.https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2023.113Investigating the impact of atmospheric boundary layer stratification on wind farm noise propagation (2023)In Forum Acusticum 2023 - 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, EAA 2023 (Proceedings of Forum Acusticum). European Acoustics Association. Colas, J., Dragna, D., Emmanuelli, A., Blanc-Benon, P., Cotté, B. & Stevens, R.https://doi.org/10.61782/fa.2023.0608

2022

Analytical model of fully developed wind farms in conventionally neutral atmospheric boundary layers (2022)Journal of fluid mechanics, 948, 1-18. Article A43. Li, C., Liu, L., Lu, X. & Stevens, R. J. A. M.https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2022.732Impact of Negative Geostrophic Wind Shear on Wind Farm Performance (2022)PRX Energy, 1(2). Article 023007. Stieren, A., Kasper, J. H., Gadde, S. N. & Stevens, R. J. A. M.https://doi.org/10.1103/PRXEnergy.1.023007Investigating wind farm blockage in a neutral boundary layer using large-eddy simulations (2022)European journal of mechanics. B - Fluids, 95, 303-314. Strickland, J. M. I. & Stevens, R. J. A. M.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euromechflu.2022.05.004Wind farm blockage in a stable atmospheric boundary layer (2022)Renewable energy, 197, 50-58. Strickland, J. M. I., Gadde, S. N. & Stevens, R. J. A. M.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2022.07.108How small-scale flow structures affect the heat transport in sheared thermal convection (2022)Journal of fluid mechanics, 944. Article A1. Yerragolam, G. S., Verzicco, R., Lohse, D. & Stevens, R. J. A. M.https://doi.org/10.1017/JFM.2022.425Impact of wind farm wakes on flow structures in and around downstream wind farms (2022)Flow, 2. Article E21. Stieren, A. & Stevens, R. J. A. M.https://doi.org/10.1017/flo.2022.15Passive scalar transport in Couette flow (2022)Journal of fluid mechanics, 943, 1-21. Article A17. Yerragolam, G. S., Stevens, R. J. A. M., Verzicco, R., Lohse, D. & Shishkina, O.https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2022.368Off-centre gravity induces large-scale flow patterns in spherical Rayleigh–BĂ©nard convection (2022)Journal of fluid mechanics, 942. Article A21. Wang, G., Santelli, L., Verzicco, R., Lohse, D. & Stevens, R. J. A. M.https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2022.360Effect of a 2D Hill on the Propagation of Wind Turbine Noise (2022)In AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference. Article AIAA 2022-2923. Colas, J., Emmanuelli, A., Dragna, D., Stevens, R. & Blanc-Benon, P.https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-2923Evaluating the accuracy of the actuator line model against blade element momentum theory in uniform inflow (2022)Wind energy, 25(6), 1046-1059. Liu, L., Franceschini, L., Oliveira, D. F., Galeazzo, F. C. C., Carmo, B. S. & Stevens, R. J. A. M.https://doi.org/10.1002/WE.2714Vertical structure of conventionally neutral atmospheric boundary layers (2022)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(22), e2119369119. Article e2119369119. Liu, L. & Stevens, R. J. A. M.https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2119369119Multiple heat transport maxima in confined-rotating Rayleigh–BĂ©nard convection (2022)Journal of fluid mechanics, 939(A1), 1-27. Article A1. Hartmann, R., Verzicco, R., Klein Kranenbarg, L., Lohse, D. & Stevens, R. J. A. M.https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2021.1031A three-dimensional dynamic mode decomposition analysis of wind farm flow aerodynamics (2022)Renewable energy, 191, 608-624. Dai, X., Xu, D., Zhang, M. & Stevens, R. J. A. M.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2022.03.160Strong alignment of prolate ellipsoids in Taylor-Couette flow (2022)Journal of fluid mechanics, 935. Article A7. Assen, M. P. A., Ng, C. S., Will, J. B., Stevens, R. J. A. M., Lohse, D. & Verzicco, R.https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2021.1134Aspect Ratio Dependence of Heat Transfer in a Cylindrical Rayleigh-BĂ©nard Cell (2022)Physical review letters, 128(8). Article 084501. Ahlers, G., Bodenschatz, E., Hartmann, R., He, X., Lohse, D., Reiter, P., Stevens, R. J. A. M., Verzicco, R., Wedi, M., Weiss, S., Zhang, X., Zwirner, L. & Shishkina, O.https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.084501

2021

Diffusion-Free Scaling in Rotating Spherical Rayleigh-BĂ©nard Convection (2021)Geophysical research letters, 48(20). Article e2021GL095017. Wang, G., Santelli, L., Lohse, D., Verzicco, R. & Stevens, R. J. A. M.https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL095017Heat transport enhancement in confined Rayleigh-BĂ©nard convection feels the shape of the container (2021)Europhysics letters, 135(2). Article 24004. Hartmann, R., Chong, K. L., Stevens, R. J. A. M., Verzicco, R. & Lohse, D.https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/ac19edCan windbreaks increase the power production of wind farms (2021)In ETMM13 Rhodes, Greece 15-17 September, 2021: Conference Proceedings (pp. 496-501). Easy Conferences Ltd. Stevens, R. J. A. M. & Liu, L.https://easyconferences.eu/etmm13/proceedings/Large eddy simulation study of extended wind farms with large inter turbine spacing (2021)In ETMM13 Rhodes, Greece 15-17 September, 2021: Conference Proceedings (pp. 475-480). Easy Conferences Ltd. Stevens, R. J. A. M. & Meneveau, C.https://easyconferences.eu/etmm13/proceedings/Modeling wind direction changes in large eddy simulations using a rotating reference frame (2021)In ETMM13 Rhodes, Greece 15-17 September, 2021: Conference Proceedings (pp. 390-395). Easy Conferences Ltd. Stieren, A., Gadde, S. N. & Stevens, R. J. A. M.https://easyconferences.eu/etmm13/proceedings/Effects of atmospheric stability on the performance of a wind turbine located behind a three-dimensional hill (2021)Renewable energy, 175, 926-935. Liu, L. & Stevens, R. J. A. M.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2021.05.035Enhanced wind-farm performance using windbreaks (2021)Physical review fluids, 6(7). Article 074611. Liu, L. & Stevens, R. J. A. M.https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.6.074611Effect of low-level jet on turbine aerodynamic blade loading using large-eddy simulations (2021)Journal of physics: Conference series, 1934(1). Article 012001. Gadde, S. N., Liu, L. & Stevens, R. J. A. M.https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1934/1/012001Evaluating wind farm wakes in large eddy simulations and engineering models (2021)Journal of physics: Conference series, 1934(1). Article 012018. Stieren, A. & Stevens, R. J. A. M.https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1934/1/012018Modeling dynamic wind direction changes in large eddy simulations of wind farms (2021)Renewable energy, 170, 1342-1352. Stieren, A., Gadde, S. N. & Stevens, R. J. A. M.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2021.02.018

Research profiles

Address

University of Twente

Horst Complex (building no. 20)
De Horst 2
7522 LW Enschede
Netherlands

Navigate to location

Organisations

Scan the QR code or
Download vCard