Bio

I develop theoretical and computational methods to model, design, and control energy systems.

Currently, I am researching uncertainty quantification of numerical solutions to PDEs using Multilevel Monte Carlo and task-based parallel computing in the Stanford Uncertainty Quantification lab.

Previously, I worked at DNV GL forecasting wind farm power production, at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory incorporating atmospheric conditions in wind farm flow models, and at Tesla analyzing loads on electric vehicles.

Honors & Awards

  • Computational Science Graduate Fellowship, Department of Energy (2018-2022)
  • Knight-Hennessy Scholar, Stanford (2018-2021)
  • Graduate Research Fellowship (declined), National Science Foundation (2018)

Education & Certifications

  • BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mechanical Engineering (2018)

Contact

  • Academic
    University - Student Department: ICME Operations Position: Graduate

Current Research and Scholarly Interests

I research theoretical and computational methods to model, design, and control energy systems. These methods include computational fluid dynamics, uncertainty quantification, high performance computing, optimization, and control. Improved methods could increase renewable energy generation from wind turbines, hydro turbines, and concentrated solar power, reduce energy consumption from cars, trucks, ships, and airplanes, incorporate renewable energy and electric vehicles in the electricity grid, and enable carbon sequestration.

Currently, I am researching hybrid RANS-LES methods for wind farm modeling in the Uncertainty Quantification lab in collaboration with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. I am also developing Multilevel Monte Carlo methods for uncertainty quantification of numerical solutions to PDEs on heterogeneous computer architectures.

All Publications

  • Multilevel Monte Carlo Sampling on Heterogeneous Computer Architectures International Journal for Uncertainty Quantification, accepted Adcock, C., Ye, Y., Jofre, L., Iaccarino, G. 2020
  • Analysis of control-oriented wake modeling tools using lidar field results WIND ENERGY SCIENCE Annoni, J., Fleming, P., Scholbrock, A., Roadman, J., Dana, S., Adcock, C., Porte-Agel, F., Raach, S., Haizmann, F., Schlipf, D. 2018; 3 (2): 819–31

    View details for DOI 10.5194/wes-3-819-2018

    View details for Web of Science ID 000448972800001

  • Data-Driven Wind Farm Optimization for Turbulence Intensity American Control Conference Adcock, C., King, R. N. 2018

    View details for DOI 10.23919/ACC.2018.8431727

  • Data-Driven Machine Learning for Wind Plant Flow Modeling King, R. N., Adcock, C., Annoni, J., Dykes, K., IOP IOP PUBLISHING LTD. 2018

    View details for DOI 10.1088/1742-6596/1037/7/072004

    View details for Web of Science ID 000454822700191

  • Active Subspaces for Wind Plant Surrogate Modeling American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics King, R., Quick, J., Adcock, C., Dykes, K. 2018

    View details for DOI 10.2514/6.2018-2019