Lead Scientist Advanced Numerics, RWE

Biography

Christopher is Lead Scientist for Advanced Numerics at RWE. He is responsible for numerical modelling, research, development, and bringing advanced modelling techniques to a production level. Leveraging 12+ years experience, Christopher leads Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) capabilities for wind resource assessment including High Performance Computing (HPC). He is heavily involved in research activities for turbine interaction (wakes and blockage), atmospheric and topographic effects utilising measured data and data science methods to drive improvements in model predictive power. He also led the Carbon Trust’s GloBE project that brought about industry consensus on the topic of the global blockage effect.