D. Todd Griffith

tgriffith@utdallas.edu
Phone: 972-883-4930
Office: ECSW 3.150C
800 West Campbell Rd.
Mailstop: ECW 31
Richardson, TX 75080-3021

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PROFESSOR, Deputy Director UTD Center for Wind Energy

Education

PhD Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University

MS Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky

BS Mechanical Engineering (with honors), University of Kentucky

BS Physics (with honors), Morehead State University

Research Interests

Disciplinary Research Interests: Multi-disciplinary Design and Optimization, Structural Dynamics, Aero-elastics, Structural Health Monitoring & Prognostics Management, Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantification

Application and Topical Interests: Aero-mechanical Structures, Novel Energy and Space Systems, Renewable Energy Technology, Wind Energy Technology, Marine Hydrokinetic Technology, Aerospace Structures, Digital Twins

Five Most Recent Journal Publications, Book Chapters, and Books

• Hossain, Md Sanower and Griffith, D.T., “Experimental Validation of Parked Loads for a Floating Vertical Axis Wind Turbine: Wind-Wave Basin Tests,” Wind Energy Science, 2024, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-156.
• Lee, Y.H., Bayat, S., Allison, J., Hossain, M.S., and Griffith, D.T., “Multidisciplinary Modeling and Control Co-Design of a Floating Offshore Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine System,” Journal of Mechanical Design, February 2025, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4068072.
• Cao, D., Bouzolin, D., Paniagua, C., Lu, H., and Griffith, D.T., “Effect of Process Parameters on the Mechanical Performance of Fusion-joined Additively Manufactured Segments,” Rapid Prototyping Journal, Vol. 30 No. 10, pp. 2071-2088. https://doi.org/10.1108/RPJ-09-2023-0319, 2024.
• Sakib, M.S., Griffith, D.T., Hossain, M.S., Bayat, S., and Allison, J.T., “Intracycle RPM Control for Vertical Axis Wind Turbines,” Wind Energy, December 2023, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/we.2885.
• Boo, S.Y., Shelley, S., Griffith, D.T., and Escalera Mendoza A., “Responses of a Modular Floating Wind TLP of MarsVAWT Supporting a 10 MW Vertical Axis Wind Turbine,” Wind 2023, 3(4): 513-544, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/wind3040029.
• Chetan, M., Yao, S., and Griffith, D.T., “Multi-fidelity Digital Twin Structural Model for a Sub-scale Downwind Wind Turbine Rotor,” Wind Energy, May 2021, https://doi.org/10.1002/we.2636

Major Honors and Awards

• AIAA Wind Energy Lecture, 2024 AIAA SCITECH Forum, January 2024, Orlando, Florida.
• Federal Research Innovation and ExpeNditures Dynamo (FRIENDs) Award, Office of Research and Innovation, UT-Dallas, FY2021-FY2023.
• Jonnson School Research Award, Associate Professor, 2022-2023, Eric Jonnson School of Engineering and Computer Science.
• Technical Program Chair, 2024 AIAA SCITECH Forum Structural Dynamics Symposium.
• Technical Program Chair, 2026, 2024, 2015, 2014 AIAA SCITECH Forum Wind Energy Symposium.
• Editor, Wiley Wind Energy journal (2019-present)
• Chairman, ASME Wind Energy Technical Committee, 2016-present.
• Best Paper Award, 2014 ASME OMAE Conference (33rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore, and Arctic Engineering), Ocean Renewable Energy Symposium; for paper titled “Hydrodynamic Module Coupling in the Offshore Wind Energy Simulation (OWENS) Toolkit”.
• Guest Scholar, Erasmus Mundus, European Wind Energy Masters (EWEM) Program, Delft University of Technology (TU-Delft), June-July, 2014.
• Chairman and Organizer, 2012 and 2014 Sandia Wind Turbine Blade Workshop.
• Associate Fellow, AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics), January 2014.
• AIAA Distinguished Service Award, for “bringing Wind Energy to the AIAA SDM Conference,” 2013.
• Individual Performance Award (special recognition for excellence in mentorship of junior staff and interns), Sandia National Laboratories, 2010.
• Recognition by the Spacecraft Technology Center (a NASA Research Partnership Center), College Station, TX, for successful flight testing of the StarNav I payload hardware and software for the NASA STS-107 mission, 2003.
• ‘Recognition by the Boeing/Spacehab team for real-time mission support at NASA Johnson Spaceflight Center during the NASA STS-107 mission, 2003.