Wakes & Blockages

When: Friday, 24 June 2022, 14:30 - 16:00
Where: Auditorium

Session description

Some of the hottest topics in wind resource assessment: Wakes and Blockage. While often treated separately in engineering models and then combined in terms of superposition, their complex interactions among themselves and with the atmospheric boundary layer are resolved in CFD modelling approaches. In this session you will see both rapid and high-fidelity modelling results alongside with real world experimental data.

Session chair

Julia Gottschall

Chief Scientist and IEA Wind Task 52 Operating Agent, Fraunhofer IWES

Presentations

Wake model validation for internal and cluster wakes

Nicolai Gayle Nygaard

Senior Lead Wind Energy Analyst, Ørsted

Far-distant offshore wakes: how far is too far and are we getting it right?

Ben Williams

Principal Engineer, DNV

Mesoscale wake modelling as a tool for maritime spatial planning

Martin Dörenkämper

Group Manager, Fraunhofer IWES

Gravity Wave Losses at Offshore Wind Farms: Magnitudes, Mitigations, and Credibility

Brian J Gribben

Research & Innovation Manager, Frazer-Nash Consultancy

GloBE: The design and operation of a large offshore experiment to measure global blockage

Sam Williams

Offshore Technical Analyst, RWE Renewables