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The UpWind project organised a workshop designed to take place at the European Wind Energy Conference 2010 in Warsaw:

Unfortunately this event was cancelled due to the air traffic disruption.

Please click here for the programme, and find some of the scheduled presentations below:

Up-scaling, Takis Chaviaropoulos (CRES)
Integral design approach and standardisation, Anand Natarajan (Risoe DTU)
Lidars - better than metmasts?, Mike Courtney (Risoe DTU)

PREVIOUS EVENTS

The contributions from UpWind partners at the European Wind Energy Conference 2009 in Marseille can be accessed here:

European Perspective on Wind Energy ResearchThierry Langlois d'Estaintôt (European Commission)
Remarkable results of the UpWind project; introduction and overview Jos Beurskens (ECN) / Peter Hjuler Jensen (Risø-DTU)
The 20 MW Lighthouse European TurbineBernard Bulder (ECN)

Deepening insight in the design of drive trains Jan Hemmelmann (GE)

Understanding and measuring the flow in and around large wind farms Hans Jørgensen (Risø-DTU) / Rebecca Barthelmie (University of Edinburgh)

Novel aerodynamic control approaches for very large wind turbine rotors Flemming Rasmussen (Risø-DTU)

AERODYNAMICS & AEROELASTIC STABILITY (BS4)

Stability analysis of parked wind turbine bladesI. Romero-Sanz (Gamesa)

Abstract

POSTERS (or poster papers) PRESENTED AT EWEC2009

E. Bossanyi and D Witcher, Garrad Hassan & Partners Ltd. (2009) A state-of-the-art controller for the 5MW UPWIND reference wind turbine

Politis, E., Rados, K.G., Prospathopoulos, J., Chaviaropoulos, P.K. and Zervos, A. (2009) CFD Modeling Issues of Wind Turbine Wakes under Stable Atmospheric Conditions

Schlez, W., Neubert, A. and Prakesh, C. (2009) New developments in large wind farm modelling

Rathmann, O. (2009) A fast parameterized wake-model for large wind farms

PAPERS PUBLISHED DURING EWEC2009

Politis, E.S (CRES), Chaviaropoulos, P.K (CRES), Riziotis, V.A. (NTUA), Voutsinas, S.G. (NTUA), Romero-Sanz, I. (Gamesa) (2009) Stability analysis of parked wind turbine blades

Fischer, T., Kühn, M. (Universität Stuttgart) (2009) Site Sensitive Support Structure and Machine Design for Offshore Wind Farms

E. Bossanyi (Garrad Hassan) and A Wright (NREL) (2009) Field testing of individual pitch control on the NREL CART-2 wind turbine

Barthelmie, R.J., Hansen, K., Frandsen, S.T., Rathmann, O., Jensen, L.E., Neckelmann, S., Schlez, W., Rados, K., Schepers, J.G., Politis, E. (2009) Modelling theimpact ofwakeson poweroutput atNysted andHorns Rev

Cabezón D., Sanz J., Martí I., Crespo A. (2009) CFD modelling of the interaction between the Surface Boundary Layer and rotor wake. Comparison of results obtained with different turbulence models and mesh strategies

Mid-term UpWind Workshop 2008

On 9 October 2008, the UpWind consortium organised the Mid Term UpWind Workshop which took place at MCE (Management Centre Europe) in Brussels. This successful external workshop was attended by more than 100 participants and followed by many more through the webinar (a video for each presentation will be uploaded soon)

The presentations and videos can be accessed here:

• Opening and introductory remarks, Peter Hjuler Jensen, Risø/DTU
• Main conclusions from the last periodic activity report, Jos Beurskens, ECN
• Upscaling, integrated design, standards , Sten Frandsen, Risø/DTU and Bernard Bulder, ECN
• Smart rotor blades, Gijs van Kuik , Delft University of Technology
• Aerodynamics and aero-elastics, Flemming Rasmussen ,Risø/DTU
• Rotor structure and materials , Bert Janssen, ECN
• Transmission and conversion, Jan Hemmelmann , GE Global Research
• Design of large sectional blades , Angel González Palacios, Gamesa Innovation & Technology
• Flow in wind farms , Rebecca Barthelmie, University of Edinburgh
• Training and education , Evagelos Politis ,CRES

On 1 April 2008, the UpWind project organised a workshop entitled 'UpWind: Exploring the design limits of very large wind turbines' at the European Wind Energy Conference 2008 in Brussels. This successful workshop was attended by 220 participants who were given the recently published UpWind bulletinns.

The presentations from the workshop can be accessed here:

• European perspective on wind energy research , Thierry d'Estaintot, European Commission, DG Research
• Update on the UpWind project , Peter Hjuler Jensen, Risoe DTU
• UpScaling: Consequences for concepts and design , Ben Hendriks, ECN
• Transmission and Conversion , Jan Hemmelmann, GE Energy
• Rotor structure and materials: Strength and fatigue experiments and phenomenological modelling , Rogier Nijssen, WMC

Other contributions from UpWind partners were:

Barthelmie, R.J., Frandsen, S.T., Rathmann, O., Politis, E., Propspathpoulos, J., Rados, K., Hansen, Cabezon, D., K., Schlez, W., Phillips, J., Neubert, A., van der Pijl, S. and Schepers, G. (2007) Wakes in large offshore wind farms; model evaluation in Upwind.

Nijssen R., Westphal T., Stammes E,, Lekoub D., Brøndsted P. (2008)>Rotor structures and materials - strength and fatigue experiments and phenomenological modelling

J. M. Prospathopoulos, E. S Politis and P. K. Chaviaropoulos (2008) Modelling Wind Turbine Wakes in Complex Terrain.

EWEC2007

The presentations from the UpWind workshop at the European Wind Energy Conference 2007 in Milan can be accessed here:

• Smart rotor blades & rotor control, Harald Bersee, Technical University of Delft
• Aerodynamics & aeroealastics, Flemming Rasmussen, Risoe DTU
• Foundations and support structures, Martin Kühn, Endowed Chair of Wind Energy - Stuttgart University

Other contributions from UpWind partners were:

Barthelmie, R.J., Schepers, J.G., van der Pijl, S., Rathmann, O., Frandsen, S.T., Cabezon, D., Politis, E., Prospathopoulos, J., Rados, K.,. Hansen, K., Schlez, W., Phillips, J. and Neubert, A. (2007) Flow and wakes in complex terrain and offshore: model development and verification in UPWIND (poster)

Nijssen R.P.L., Van Delft D.R.V., Janssen LG.J. (2007) UpWind: Blade Materials and Structures(Presentation in the session 'Structural Design and Materials')

Nijssen R.P.L., Van Delft D.R.V., Janssen LG.J. (2007) UpWind: Rotor Materials and Structures(Paper)

Rathmann, O., Frandsen, S.T. and Barthelmie, R.J. (2007) Wake modelling for intermediate and large wind farms