Scientific themes

List of themes

Wind resource, metocean and extreme conditions
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Energy ship / Unmoored Floating Offshore Wind Turbines (UFOWT)
  • Airborne Wind Energy
  • Distributed wind / small wind turbines
  • High-density wind farms
  • Any other topics
Published on July 5, 2024 Updated on September 10, 2024