An advanced modeling tool funded by the Energy Department is now available to help offshore wind plant developers, wind turbine original equipment manufacturers, and researchers design offshore turbine and foundation systems.
A multiscale atmosphere/wind farm simulation toolkit incorporates the full spectrum of weather, environmental, and turbine impacts.
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) recently reached a major milestone by successfully remounting a rotor on one of its heavily modified Vestas V27...
Offshore Wind Farm Model Development – Upcoming Release of the University of Minnesota’s Virtual Wind Simulator
Starting in 2012, researchers tried placing spotlights downwind from the 2.5-megawatt (MW) wind turbine in Rosemount, Minnesota. The research team was attempting to study turbulent airflow around a turbine in the field.