Sunday, July 28, 2013

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


Thursday, July 11, 2013

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!

Thursday, July 4, 2013

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.