Scientific themes
List of themes
- Wind resource, metocean and extreme conditions
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- Extremes and gusts
- Metocean modeling
- Multiscale modeling
- Modeling turbulence for siting
- Lidars/remote sensing for wind resource assessment
- Lidars/remote sensing for turbulence measurements
- Icing
- Erosion
- Precipitation and lightning
- Forecasting
- Wind variability
- Climate change
- Complex terrain
- Machine learning for wind conditions
- Measurements and uncertainties
- Modeling and uncertainties
- Atmospheric flow simulation
- Air density
- Wind farms and wakes
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- Active wake manipulation
- Wakes of floating turbines
- Cluster/ wind farm wakes and blockage
- Turbine wake dynamics
- Turbine or farm wake modeling
- Turbine or farm wake observations
- Novel simulation techniques
- Aerodynamics, aeroelasticity and acoustics
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- Rotor aerodynamics and flow control
- Aerodynamics and aeroelasticity of offshore turbines
- Impact of the complex atmosphere on rotor and plants
- Air-borne, structure-borne, and ground-borne vibrations
- Aeroelastic stability and vibrations
- Icing, erosion, soiling and precipitations
- Modeling from low to high fidelity, including FSI
- Field and wind tunnel testing
- Turbine technology and Control
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- Wind turbine loads and control
- Wind farm performance and control
- Floating offshore modelling and control
- Multi Rotor control
- Multi wind turbine control
- Electrical control impact on wind turbine and its controller
- Structures, structural integrity, materials
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- Advanced Design of Support Structures
- Geotechnical Engineering and Soil-Structure-Interaction
- Wave Loads on Support Structures
- Structural load modeling and design integrity assesment
- Support Structures- Critical Details, Joints, Repair
- Mechanical components: bearings, actuators…
- Drive Train Mechanics, Gearbox
- Rotor Blades - Critical Details, Joints, Repair
- Structural design, modelling and optimization of wind turbine rotor blades
- Novel structural testing and validation methods
- Design for industrialization (manufacturability, installability and supply chain)
- Marine operations, installation and decomissioning
- Fatigue modeling and lifetime assesment
- Lightweight, sustainable material science and manufacturing
- Circular economy and recyclability of materials
- Materials and structures durability in harsh environment
- Optimal systems design: integrated, multidisciplinary design approaches
- Lifetime Extension of Support Structures and Blades
- Reliability, monitoring and sensing, O&M
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- Reliability-based design and optimization (including structural, material and electro-mechanical issues);
- Monitoring-based Risk Assessment
- Life-cycle assessment and optimization; Service lifetime extension;
- Structural and mechanical reliability, including electro-mechanical systems;
- Probabilistic degradation models;
- Structural health monitoring and Inspection,
- Preditive Maintenance Planning and O&M Optimization
- Failure consequences on human lives, activities and environmental damage ;
- Monitoring strategies;
- Sensor harware and validation;
- Data-driven and Hybrid Methods for Monitoring and Twinning
- IoT and connectivity
- Data integration, storage and accessibility
- FAIR data and data sharing
- O&M data analytics
- Operational strategies (curtailment, etc.)
- Logistics (drones, vessels etc.)
- Maintenance (scheduling, optimization etc.)
- Electrical conversion, energy systems and grid integration
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- Drivetrain
- Electrical conversion
- Grid integration
- Wind to X
- Forecasting and market integration
- Condition monitoring and fault detection of electro-mechanical systems
- New design and innovative technologies for drivetrain and power conversion system
- The impact of advanced operations, e.g. grid forming, on mechanical parts of wind turbines
- The impact of grid code requirements on electro-mechanical interactions in wind turbines
- Floating wind special features
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- Station-keeping system
- Dynamic power cables
- Floater motion effects on aerodynamics and wakes
- Floating wind turbine hydrodynamics
- Floating wind turbine/farm design optimization
- Experimental methods for floating wind
- Prototypes and pilots related to floating wind
- Offshore installation and maintenance operations and logistics for floating wind
- Wind turbine and wind farm control specificities for floating wind
- Novel concepts in floating wind
- Manufacturing and industrialization for floating wind
- Numerical simulation of floating wind
- Policy, economics, planification and environmental impacts
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- Regulatory framework applicable to wind energy
- Public policies
- Systems of marine planning and methods of integrating stakeholders
- Industrial and financial strategies
- Emerging threats and environmentals risks associated with wind energy
- Employment in the wind energy sector
- Wind energy litigation
- Energy transition process and its geopolitical, economic, and social challenges
- Emerging technologies and special sessions
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- Energy ship / Unmoored Floating Offshore Wind Turbines (UFOWT)
- Airborne Wind Energy
- Distributed wind / small wind turbines
- High-density wind farms
- Any other topics