This Lecture Series on “Multidisciplinary simulations of wind farms in complex environments” is part of the H2020 Zephyr project. It will be followed by a one-day Zephyr Final Public Workshop entitled "Large-scale wind turbines complex terrain effect and urban wind energy: application cases". The lecture series from 18 to 20 November will take place at VKI, the final public workshop on 21 September will take place at the Bluepoint Conference Center.

This Lecture Series will present a state-of-the-art of advanced meso/microscale atmospheric models for the assessment of the impact of real terrain/urban landscapes and local atmospheric effects on the predicted aerodynamic performance, structural dynamics and noise emissions. Obviously, human factors become a critical issue when implementing wind turbines in densely populated urban environments. The inter-dependencies between those factors (visual vs. acoustic effects, age or occupation, etc.), which complicate further the analysis of the motivations for a community to endorse or reject a new project, will be addressed as well.

The directors of the lecture series are Prof. Christophe Schram and Dr. Sophia Buckingham from the von Karman Institute.

Location (on-site / online) Lecture Series 18-20 September 2023

von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics

Waterloosesteenweg 72

B-1640 Sint-Genesius-Rode (near Brussels)

Location (on-site only for the participants to the lecture series and the members of the Zephyr Project / online for external participants) Final Zephyr Workshop 21 September 2023

Bluepoint Conference Center

Boulevard August Reyers 80

1030 Brussels

Programme Lecture Series "Multidisciplinary Simulation of Wind Farms in Complex Environments"

REGISTRATION TO THE LECTURE SERIES

Monday 18 September 2023

08:45 – 09:00 Registration

09:00 – 09:15 Welcome address

09:15 – 10:30 Multi-scale modelling of atmospheric flows with applications to wind energy
Dr. Wim Munters, Environmental and Applied Fluid Dynamics Department, von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Belgium

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:15 Urban flow simulations: addressing barriers to empower their application
Prof. Clara Garcia Sanchez, department of Architecture and Built Environment, TU Delft, The Netherlands

12:15 – 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 – 14:45 Meso-micro coupling & terrain effects
Dr. Rogier Ralph Floors, Department of Wind and Energy Systems, DTU, Denmark

14:45 – 15:15 Coffee break

15:15 – 16:30 Advanced CFD models of WT aerodynamics
Prof.  Esteban Ferrer, Department of Applied Mathematics to Aerospace Engineering, Universidad Politécnica Madrid, Spain

16:30  Reception

Tuesday 19 September 2023

09:15 – 10:30 Aero-elasticity and structural dynamics of large horizontal axis wind turbines
Dr. Paul Bonnet, Siemens, Spain

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:15 Noise emissions
Dr. Julien Christophe, von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Belgium and Prof. Benjamin Cotté, ENSTA, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France

12:15 – 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 – 14:45 Atmospheric acoustic propagation
Prof. Benjamin Cotté, ENSTA, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France

14:45 – 15:15 Coffee break

15:15 – 16:30 Numerical Sound Predictions of VAWT using the Lattice Boltzmann Method
Prof. Stéphane Moreau, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada

Wednesday 20 September 2023

09:15 – 10:30 Flow control on wind turbine blades
Prof. Paweł Flaszyński, Aerodynamics Department, IMP PAN, Poland

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:15 Visit of the VKI laboratories
Prof. Christophe Schram

12:15 – 13:45 Lunch break

13:45 – 15:00 Auralization & psycho-acoustic effects
Dr. Julien Maillard, CSTB, France

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 - 16:45 Public Acceptance of wind energy
Prof. Mattijs Smits, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands

Programme Zephyr Final Public Workshop "Large-scale wind turbines complex terrain effect and urban wind energy: application cases"  (not included in the lecture series, separate free registration available below)

FREE REGISTRATION TO THE ZEPHYR WORKSHOP

Thursday 21 September 2023

8:45-9:00    Registration   

9:00-9:15    Welcome address
Dr. Sophia Buckingham (ENGIE)    

Large Onshore Wind Turbines
Chairman:  Dr Julien Christophe (VKI)
    
9:15-9:45    Determination of atmospheric boundary layer flow conditions for realistic aeroacoustic and aerodynamic modeling of a full-size wind turbine at the Høvsøre test site    
Baris Kale (VKI)

9:45-10:15    Wind turbine noise prediction and effect of asymmetries in the rotor plane    
Laura Botero Bolivar (U. Twente) and Oscar Marino Sánchez (UPM)

10:15-10:45    Auralization of the noise emitted by the SWT 2.3-93 wind turbine    
Andrea Bresciani (CSTB)

10:45-11:15 Coffee break

Complex Terrain Perdigao
Chairman: Dr Sophia Buckingham (ENGIE)
  
11:15-11:45    Microscale ABL simulations around complex terrain site of Perdigao using OpenFOAM    
Kartik Venkatraman (VKI)

11:45-12:15    Multi-scale wake modeling of a standalone wind turbine operating in realistic atmospheric conditions in complex terrain    
Baris Kale (VKI)

12:15-12:45    Propagation of wind turbine noise in the Perdigao test site    
Andrea Bresciani (CSTB) - Laura Botero (U.Twente) - Oscar Marino (UPM)

12:45 - 14:00 Lunch break

Urban Canopy
Chairman: Dr Anton Ianakiev (NTU)

14:00-14:30    Modeling of Ducted Wind Turbines    
Rui Goncalves (VKI) and Manoel Freire Guimaraes (TUD)

14:30-15:00    Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics of VAWT: a mid-fidelity and high-fidelity investigation    
Shubham Shubham (NTU/Cranfield University

15:00-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-16:00    Reassembling urban low-carbon futures through wind energy visions    
Iryna Lunevich (WUR)

16:00-17:00    Open Debate    
Chairman: Prof. Christophe Schram (VKI)

 

Eligibility Criteria

The citizens of the following countries are eligible to attend the von Karman Institute Lecture Series:

- EU member countries
- NATO member countries
- NATO's Mediterranean Dialogue (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia)
- Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, United Arab Emirates)
- Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Chile, Colombia, Japan, India, Indonesia, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mauritania, Mexico, Montenegro, Mozambique, New Zealand, Nigeria, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland, Thailand, Uruguay, South-Africa and Vietnam.

VKI reserves the right to request a clearance check with Belgian authorities.

The participants will have to present their ID card (for EU citizens) or passport (for other citizens) the first day of the lecture series.

Fee and Registration

Registration to the lecture series

REGISTRATION TO THE LECTURE SERIES

Early bird registration fee: 25 July 2023 (included)

Deadline to register (online): 10 September 2023

Deadline to register (on-site): 4 September 2023

A discount of 10% will be applied for online participation.

Price for citizens of NATO countries

	Early registration	Late registration
Undergraduate students	126	140
PhD students	378	420
Staff from recognized universities / research center	756	840
Staff from commercial organizations	907	1008

Price for citizens of other countries

	Early registration	Late registration
Undergraduate students	180	200
PhD students	540	600
Staff from recognized universities / research center	1080	1200
Staff from commercial organizations	1296	1440

Information for PhD candidates and undergraduate students: To obtain the reduced price, the applicant must provide a recommendation letter from his or her professor; if not, the request will not be taken into consideration.

Special reduction

Rebates can be given for group subscriptions along the following scheme :

- 5 persons of the same organization -2%
- 10 persons of the same organization -5%
- 20 persons of the same organization -10%

Registration to the Final Public Zephyr Workshop

Deadline to register (online): 10 September 2023

Deadline to register (on-site only Lecture Series participants and Zephyr members): 4 September 2023

FREE REGISTRATION TO THE ZEPHYR WORKSHOP

The on-site participation is only available for the participants to the lecture series and the members of the Zephyr Project. For the other participants, the participation is online only.

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