Research at the Wind Energy Institute

The Wind Energy Institute (WEI) concentrates its research activities on four highly interconnected thrust areas: simulation, testing, control and design. The institute works both on basic scientific and application-oriented problems, often in close collaboration with industry. Areas of specific expertise embrace all main relevant scientific disciplines, including aerodynamics, structures, dynamics, materials, controls and electrical aspects.

Research Foci

• Modeling and simulation of wind energy systems
• Multidisciplinary design
• Aeroservoelasticity, loads and stability
• Control of wind turbines and wind farms
• Wind tunnel testing
• Operation and maintenance

Infrastructures

• Scaled wind turbine and wind farm models
• Model building lab
• Computational lab

Competences

• Multibody dynamics, computational mechanics, non-linear finite element methods
• Model reduction and system identification
• Design and synthesis of model-based controllers
• Design and manufacturing of aeroelastically-scaled and actively controlled wind turbine models for wind tunnel testing
• Data analytics