MS#03.3 Open-acces field database for wind turbine loads, inflow and wake characterization

C. BRAUD¹, F. BLONDEL², C. KELLER³, J. DEPARDAY⁴
¹ CNRS|² IFPEN|³ Sandia |⁴ OST

One major challenge to progress futher in the development of wind Energy is the improvement of design tools that can accurately capture the complex multi-physics of full-scale models while keeping computational costs manageable. To do so, field tests from turbines that are operating in real conditions are mandatory. These tests are however complex, expensive and should be shared worldwide. This mini-symposium is one step towards that objective.

Researchers already identified to  release such database openly for the conference will contribute to this mini-sympsium. These databases contain a diversity of field measurements such as: meteorologic mast, scanning LIDAR, SCADA data,  scanned blade geometry, blade pressure measurements etc ...  They were acquired within different national projects from different countries (USA, Switzerland, France) : AWAKEN ( https://a2e.energy.gov/project/awaken), RAAW (https://rotor-inflow-benchmark.readthedocs.io/en/latest/), AEROSENSE ( https://mostwiedzy.pl/en/open-research-data/aerosense-measurements-aventa-av-7-taggenberg-winter-2022-2023-campaign,609073823623542-0), MOMENTA/ePARADISE (https://awit.aeris-data.fr/).

All other researchers are invited to present the field test databases they are willing to share openly at the date of the conference. This can be an old database as well as a more recent one. This is restrictive to field databases but can include wind tunnel or water tunnel tests if related to field tests.

The objective is to open collaborations or simple exchanges between database producers and users, this includes for instance guidelines to modelers on how to use these databases.