EAWE Wind-Tunnel Testing Committee (WTTC)

Standardizing Wind Tunnel Testing

Motivation and Objectives

Enhancing collaboration and standardization

Wind tunnel experiments are common in wind energy related research.

Results from these investigations can depend on the given infrastructure as well as the used measurement equipment.

The lack of standardized procedures for e. g. calibration methods, measurement positions, and temporal and spatial resolution affects data evaluation as much as blockage effects and background turbulence. Additionally, different designs of wind turbine models or porous discs make it difficult to compare findings and to develop generally applicable conclusions.

The Wind Tunnel Testing Committee (WTTC) was proposed to enhance the communication between different facilities in order to work out solutions for the mentioned issues. 

The main objectives given in the proposal are:

Organize activities to address wind tunnel testing challenges / experiences in academic / industrial wind energy research
Increase quality of wind tunnel testing through putting up standards on data precision, measurement methodology, corrections, reporting, etc.
Provide publicity for facilities to service wind energy research community (facility specs, flow characteristics, measurements and test capabilities, etc.)
Provide open access experimental databases for research community

The WTTC committee meets at least twice a year via phone or video conferences to organize the activities.

Current Activities

The work within the test turbine working group should consist of collect and present information about:

WESC 2021 Symposium
Organization of the Mini symposium “Challenges in Wind Tunnel Testing in Wind Energy Research” at the WESC 2021
Porous Disc Test
Preparation of a second round-robin test like the one reported in S. Aubrun et al., Round-robin tests of porous disc models, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 1256 012004
Wind Tunnel Guidelines
Development of “best practise guidelines” for wind tunnel experiments to make results more comparable including documentation of procedures and results
WTTC Datasets
Collection of information experimental datasets that can be made available for members of the WTTC
Discussion
Discussion on special topics e. g. generation of turbulence and definition of turbulent characteristics
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Our Team

Get to know the talented individuals behind our committee.

Dr. Michael Hölling (Chair)

Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, ForWind, Germany
Jörg Alber
Technische Universität Berlin, TU Berlin, Germany
 
Prof. Dr. Sandrine Aubrun
Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France
 
Christian Bak
Technical University of Denmark, DTU, Denmark
 
Dr. Majid Bastankhah
Durham University, UK
 
Prof. Raúl Bayoán Cal
Portland State University, PSU, USA
 
Prof. Dr. Carlo Bottasso
Technical University Munich, TUM, Germany
 
Dr. Caroline Braud
CNRS, France
 
Filippo Campagnolo
Technical University Munich, TUM, Germany
 
Dr. Alessandro Croce
Politecnico di Milano, POLIMI, Italy
 
Carlos Simao Ferreira
Technical University Delft, Netherlands
 
Nicholas Hamilton
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, NREL, USA
 
Dr. Philip Hancock
University of Surrey, UK
 
Prof. Horia Hangan
Western University, WindEEE Research Institute, Canada
 
Ass. Prof. Jason Hearst
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, Norway
 
Ass. Prof. Giacomo Valerio Iungo
The University of Texas at Dallas, UT Dallas, USA
 
Claudio Mannini
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
 
Dr. Marinos Manolesos
City, University of London, UK
 
Prof. Jonathan Naughton
University of Wyoming, USA
 
Prof. Dr. Oguz Uzol
Middle East Technical University, METU, Turkey
 
Dr. Mustafa Perçin
Middle East Technical University, METU, Turkey
 
Prof. Dr. Joachim Peinke
Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, ForWind, Germany
 
Dr. Marco Placidi
University of Surrey, UK
 
Dr. Motofumi Tanaka
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, AIST, Japan
 
Prof. Dr. Jeroen van Beeck
The Von Karman Institute For Fluid Dynamics VKI, Belgium
 
Prof. Dr. ir. Jan-Willem van Wingerden
Technical University Delft, Netherlands
 
Dr. Wei Yu
Technical University Delft, Netherlands
 

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Membership

The member list can be found on EAWE webpage, which is updated annually.

Research institutes and universities in Europe are welcome to join the EAWE Drivetrain Technical Committee. Please contact DTC chair for further details. Active research institutes and universities outside Europe can join as associate members – upon approval of DTC general assembly and EAWE board.

Queries can be directed to EAWE or the initiators of the WTTC Michael Hölling, Oguz Uzol and Sandrine Aubrun.

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