Research Interests

• Life estimation of wind turbines
• Wind farm flow modelling
• Wind turbine aeroacoustics
• Wind turbine simulation & design
• Computational fluid dynamics
• Turbulence

Curriculum Vitae

• 2012 - 2016: B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur, India. Focus: Energy systems

• 2016 - 2017: Senior Engineer, Purchase Dpt. at Adani Power Maharashtra Ltd., India

• 2017 - 2020: M.Sc. in Power Engineering at Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany. Focus: Computational Fluid Dynamics & Wind Energy. Master Thesis: “Development of a FW-H solver coupled to CFD for low-frequency noise computation from Wind Turbines”

• 2020 – 2021: Skills for Excellence Certificate at TUM. Focus: Machine Learning & Control Systems

• 2020 - 2021: Research Assistant at Chair of Thermodynamics, TUM

• 2021: Research Assistant at Chair of Wind Energy, TUM

• 2021 - Present: PhD Candidate at Chair of Wind Energy, TUM

Publications

• Shah, A. H., Vad, A., Guilloré, A. & Bottasso, C. L. (2026). Towards a load surrogate model for low-frequency fatigue cycles in wind turbines. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 3224, Issue 6, p. 062064). IOP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/3224/6/062064 

• Shah, A. H., Amhis, K., Sucameli, C. R., Bertagnolio, F.,Fischer, A. & Bottasso, C. L. (2026). Leveraging directivity of wind farm noise to increase profitability. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 3224, Issue 4, p. 042043). IOP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/3224/4/042043

• Vad, A., Shah, A. H., Aktan, H. D., & Bottasso, C. L. (2026). Identifying harmful stress cycles in wind turbine operations. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 3224, No. 7, p. 072015). IOP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/3224/7/072015

• Vad, A., Shah, A. H., Guilloré, A., Dröse, M., & Bottasso, C. L. (2026). Turbine-specific lifetime consumption estimation by integrating environmental data with a farm flow model. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 3224, No. 3, p. 032064). IOP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/3224/3/032064

• Major, D., Krause, J., Shah, A., & Bottasso, C. L. (2026, May). An efficient turbulent wake generator for wind turbine load response including steered wakes. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 3224, No. 3, p. 032101). IOP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/3224/3/032101

• Guilloré, A., Chaudhary, A., Anand, A., Vad, A., Shah, A. H., Pettas, V., Göçmen, T. & Bottasso, C. L. (2026). Efficient generation of location-agnostic wind turbine load surrogate models using wake slices. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 3224, Issue 3, p. 032106). IOP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/3224/3/032106

• Vad, A., Guilloré, A., Anand, A., Pettas, V., Shah, A. H., Lizarraga-Saenz, I., Aparicio-Sanchez, M., Eguinoa, I., Conti Gost, N., Tsaklis, I., Frère, A., Hermans, K. W., Kamau, J. K., Dimitrov, N., Göçmen, T., and Bottasso, C. L.: Modeling wind farm response: a modular, integrated, and multi-stakeholder approach, Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2026-45, in review, 2026.

• Shah, A. H., Sucameli, C. R., &  Bottasso, C. L. (2025). Investigation of individual pitch control for infrasound noise reduction from wind turbines, In 11th Edition of the International Conferences on Wind Turbine Noise: Conference Proceedings, p. 236 ID: 351. https://doi.org/10.11581/08042886-dea0-4511-b4bd-6c5403125735

• Shah, A. H., Sucameli, C. R., & Bottasso, C. L. (2024). Development of a FW-H tool coupled with CFD for infrasound noise emissions from wind turbines. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 2767, Issue 2, 022030). IOP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2767/2/022030