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Matthew (Matt) Barone
Aeronautical Engineering
06121Wind Energy Technologies
Matthew Barone is the Aerodynamics and Acoustics Lead in the Wind & Water Power Technologies Department at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. He joined the technical staff at Sandia following graduate school, and worked in the Aerosciences Department from June of 2003 to May 2008. Matthew has worked in the Wind Energy Technology Department from May 2008 to the present time. Research projects at Sandia have included investigation and validation of hybrid Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes/Large-Eddy Simulation techniques with application to turbulent wakes, development of validation metrics as a means for rigorous model assessment by comparison to experiment, and investigation of reduced-order modeling for fluid-structure interaction. He has also been involved in the development of a new unstructured grid compressible flow code and its validation, as well as application of computational fluid dynamics for aerodynamic predictions. Current research interests include prediction of aerodynamic performance, loads, and noise for wind turbines. Matthew is a member of the AIAA Fluid Dynamics Technical Committee, ASME Wind Energy Technical Committee, and technical chair for the 29th ASME Wind Energy Symposium. He received a Bachelors degree in Aerospace Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1997, and a Doctorate in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University in 2003.