So long my friends!

We've reached the end of my summer in Copenhaguen! It was certainly lots of fun! I made some nice progress on the research this summer, as well!

See you soon!

I spent and awesome week in Spain with Nancy! Andnow I'm back in Baltimore, MD at my new place!

Me and my gorgeous girlfriend on a date in Barcelona!

I had lots of fun this summer. I learned many things, ranging from wind energy aerodynamics, up to how to run a successful society. The experience has given me a lot, and I'm sure there will be more collaborations with fellow European researchers in the near future. Here I present a very nice video of the turbine model we were able to implement in our LES code. It is a preliminary result, but nevertheless, it shows what we have been able to accomplish. It is a simulation o the model being an actuator turbine model with only a line (up) and a sector (down)representing the blades.

Thanks to all of you who stayed tuned!

Tony

I see dead people!

This weekend was intense! I woke up at 7:30am Saturday aand Sunday! Damn I'm getting good at this! hahaha Saturday I went to Roskilde, it used to be Denmark's capital maaaaany years ago. It's a nice and calmed down city. I went with Claire, and we touristed around. We saw 2 museums and the Cathedral. This Cathedral is where all the Kings and their families are burried. It is a bit strange, but all the graves are inside the Cathedral. It's like a Museum so you can pay and go in and see it, which of course we did. The highlight of the day was probably the brunch we had, which was very American, having eggs, bacon and panckakes, ha!

The Cathedral from upstairs.

Dead people.

There were a looot of jellyfish in the water!

On Sunday I went to the Lyngby lakes with Iva and some of her friends. We did Canoing and even fell on water, it was pretty epic. We went a long way, found a spot to have lunch at, and then went back. It was fun!

A nice duck who got really close!

Me on the boat!

This week has been pretty epic as well! We went wake boarding yesterday! That was awesome! We had lots of fun. Our friend Nestor, has been wake boarding for several years and he took us to the cable park! We need one of these in Baltimore and in PR! Here is Nestor showing off.

Nestor on the cable park!

 Now this machine is awesome. Its on the grocery store. This is where you take your bottles and cans for recycling and get money from it!

Money!

Crossing Stuff Outta da Bucket List!!

Hello friends and family! I have been quite busy lately! I have made some significant advances lately in my research! yay! (When does that ever happen?, right?)

My friend Julito came and visited this weekend! He arrived Saturday around noon and left Monday morning at around 4am! So we had some fun during the weekend! We met at Baresso (Danish version of Starbucks!)

The following picture is of me riding the train towards Sweden where you can see the Lillgrund wind farm! We carried huge simulations of this wind farm during my masters! It is pretty exciting! The wind farm is on the back and very small, but its there! hahaha

This is probably my favorite picture of the summer!

Now this thing I particullary did not like, because it's a bunch of projectors, with an image that keeps moving as if you were on a train. This is the train station, and it's a huuuge waste of energy, cause those projectors must be on all day. This was in Sweden, now we know where the energy from the Lillgrund wind farm goes, hahaha.

This week the streets were packed with locals on these buses and their funny hats screaming and partying all around the city. I later found out that these are high school graduates, which in Denmark, its a big thing, its when you reach adulthood.

Adulthood

When I was walking around the city with Julito we ran into this at the city hall. A soccer event where they had plenty of people playing games and stuff. It looked fun!

Near the City Hall.

Julito y yo en el tren.

 We stayed in Sweden for about 2 and a half hours, haha. It was Sunday and we had to go back to Salsa dancing in Copenhaguen!

Me in Sweden.

A bridge in Sweden and me.

WindInspire

The WindInspire meeting was this week! So I presented my poster and spent some time with my current and former advisors. Here are some pictures and the poster!

At Charle's place!

The poster I presented on Tuesday!

Dinner Time!

We had a very nice dinner on Saturday at Hamid's apartment. He was a visiting student at JHU last summer and now we are visiting student's at DTU! He and his wife made Persian dinner for us! It was very good, we ate and talked for a while. Here is a nice picture of all of us together!

Having dinner at Hamid's place!

It's a Force Field!

Greetings my friend! I have been very busy lately! So I haven't had time to sit down and write, but finally, even though I don't have time still, I'll just write this and sleep an extra hour tomorrow :D This comment I wrote the other night, I went to sleep before I finished what I was writing, of course, hahaha

The nice city of Copenhaguen

Now there are a lot of stories to tell, and most of them are mixed in my head, so try not to get confused :P and don't worry about the exact days hahaha

The welcoming of the ICOWES Meeting!

So let's start with my adventures in Denmark with Claire! Claire is a PhD student at Hopkins who works in Meneveau's group as well. She is also visiting Copenhaguen as part of the international collaboration from our wind energy grant. Claire came two weeks ago so last weekend we went and touristed around Copenhaguen. We first met Saturday morning. We went around the area I knew and then we went to the City Hall where we wanted to get on one of the free Copenhaguen tours. It was quite funny when we had walked for 10 minutes and got to the lakes. Claire was taking some pictures when this drunk was talking to some people next to us. Suddenly he goes up the ledge, all drunk, and the people were worried and yelling for him to get down. He definitely had some business to take care of, and of course, our location had quite an interesting view. And since Claire was taking pictures, this magical moment was captured.

Watering the water

We were taking a tour at 1:00pm, but when we got there it seems they are not giving the tours at 1, only the ones at 11:00am, so that was a bummer. Being tourists, and having planned a day of trouristing we decided to walk around and just find our way through the city. This doesn't sound appealing, but remember Copenhaguen is a veeery safe city and makes for a good walk! At some point we were walking away from the city and werent sure where we were headed. So during our discussion, on a bridge, a biker stopped by and helped us out! He asked us where we wanted to go, and of course we didn't know hahaha. So he pointed us in the direction of Christiania! And there we went! This is quite a place, it even has a green district where no pictures are allowed, go figure haha.

The land of the free hahaha

At some point during one of our touristing days we walked by this car! Guess who still hasn't paid their tickets? hahaha

They are not willing to pay the ticket...

Our tour guide providing some history facts with the use of tourists, as part of the explanation! This was way more entertaining than my history classes back in high school, hahaha.

There was an important conference this week here at DTU. The ICOWES Meeting were we had people from all over the world visiting. I met with some old friends and made some new friends as well! It was a very good conference with many talks on wind energy aerodynamics and all the fun stuff! Here is a picture of the audience being challenged by Claire's hard questions on the effects of forcing in wind turbines!

The audience being challenged!

Here is a picture of a floating hotel in in Copenhauen! It seems fun, but very expensive! I think I could stay like 1-2 weeks before running out of funding for the summer, hahaha.

A very nice hotel in the water!

I walk by this statue every day, I wonder where the drunk guy found his inspiration....

Watering the wall

I have been working a lot lately and a funny thing is in my code I have a variable called "ForceField". This reminds me of the song "Feel So Close", so I've been listening to the song while coding, it's kinda funny. haha

Having some Champaign with my friend Chris, who I met at GE several years ago and Claire!

Aqui hanguean los cacos en Copenhaguen. jajajaja (inside joke for Puertorricans)

Sand sculptures seen from the boat tour.

Where Kierkergad, the philosopher, rests. (esta es para ti Juancho!)

Me being quite an athlete. Dont think I made it much further. Well I did, just not in the vertical direction ;)

Why is the Rum always gone?

And you're wondering why is the Rum always gone, well Jack Sparrow always has the same question! It was Friday, and I went to a BBQ for someone's birthday! I went with my friend Iva, who was friends with most of the people there, who work at Riso. It was a nice BBQ and I was talking with Iva when suddenly Jack Sparrow (a random Icelandic fellow) came out of nowhere and started talking to Iva. He asked if she was Icelandic, and then told us that he was crashing the party and didnt know anyone there. hahaha We talked with him for a while and he left after being aronud for an hour and asking everyone at the party for a cigarette. So after we talked with him for a while Iva says: he reminds of me of Jack Sparow, and that right there, was it. He was Jack Sparrow! So why is the Rum always gone? No one really knows, but here is a picture of our friend Jack!

Jack Sparrow

I spent most of Saturday in my place with my friends Mario, Kerstin, Roger and Ivo, who is visiting Europe for vacation and has been friends with Mario and Roger since they were little. I guess the highlight for Saturday night I missed, but still it was fun so I'll tell you about it. They all went out late Saturday night. They stopped at 7/11 to get some drinks and a guy stole one of their bikes. So a random girl told them which way the guy went, it was a drunk guy, haha. So Mario went after him, and eventually found his bike. So he ran straight into the guy with his bike and knocked him over. Then pushed him against the ground, yelled at him and finally went back with his bike. I wish I were there to see it but I guess I heard the story a couple times!

The living room

So now I have my days mixed up in my head so I will try to get the stories right but Saturday/Sunday might be overlapped!

Sunday was Mario's birthday! So we went on a picnic to the park which is next to where I get the bus! We had a BBQ with some friends. The best part was when we had to go get some ice. And I went on a ride on a bike! This was my first bike ride in Denmark. It was kinda funny, last time I took one of these in NY it was more than $30 haha. I got a pretty good deal this time, Mario biked on the way there and then I biked on the was back.

On the way back!

On the way there!

On Saturday some sort of manifestation went by our place. I'm not sure what it was but I took a picture, haha. And here are some more pictures from the BBQ.

No more fossil fuels! (jk, i dont really know why they're protesting)

BBQ and friends

 

The park