Danny Sale


Danny Sale

Ph.D Student
Mechanical Engineering Department
University of Washington
Box 352600
Seattle, WA 98195
(865) 719-0557
dsale@u.washington.edu


Education

• B.S., Mechanical Engineering. Minor, Mathematics. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2009


Awards and Honors

• Recipient of 2010 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

Professional Experience

• Feb. – Aug. 2010: Junior Research Engineer, Wind and Water Power Technologies, Oak Ridge National Laboratory – Environmental Science Division. Oak Ridge, TN.
• Jan. – Aug. 2010: Subcontractor for National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Wind and Water Power Technologies, University of Tennessee – Mechanical Engineering Department. Knoxville, TN.
• Summer 2008 and Summer 2009: Intern, Wind and Water Power Technologies, National Renewable Energy Laboratory – National Wind Technology Center. Boulder, CO.
• Summer 2007: Intern, Supercomputing HVAC, Oak Ridge National Laboratory – Facilities Design. Oak Ridge, TN.
• Summer 2006: Intern, Maintenance and Reliability, Michelin – American Synthetic Rubber Company. Louisville, KY.
• Jan. 2006 – May 2007: Math Tutor, University of Tennessee – Math Tutorial Center. Knoxville, TN.

Selected Publications

  1. Lawson, M., Li, Y., Sale, D., "Development and Verification of a Computational Fluid Dynamics Model of a Horizontal-Axis Tidal Current Turbine," Proc. 30th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore, and Arctic Engineering, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June, 2011.
  2. Neary, V., Sale, D., "Flow Characterization of River Resources for Hydrokinetic Energy Conversion," HydroVision International, Charlotte, NC, July, 2010.
  3. Sale, D., Jonkman, J., Musial, W., “A Hydrodynamic Optimization Method and Design Code for Stall-Regulated Hydrokinetic Turbine Rotors,” Proc. 28th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore, and Arctic Engineering, Honolulu, HA, June, 2009.