Renewable Energy Sources

The use of renewable energies is signifi-cantly influenced by the variability of their energy sources. Research into the latter is therefore essential for effective and efficient energy conversion and the large-scale use of renewable energies. Our focus is particularly on researching and assessing wind resources in the context of wind energy conversion. We investigate not only the undisturbed flows, such as those that hit a wind farm as inflow, but also the effects of wind turbines and wind farms on the flow itself and thus on subsequent plants and clusters.

Working Area

Applied Wind / Atmospheric Physics, Atmospheric Turbulence, Wind Remote Sensing, Wind Resource Assessment, Offshore Boundary Layer Meteorology, Extreme Metocean Conditions

Methods

Measurement of wind and other atmos-pheric quantities, and validation of numerical wind models on various scales; stand-ardization of measurement and data pro-cesses within the wind industry; large-scale testing and offshore validation campaigns