Progress in the Mathematical and Computational Study of Wind Turbine Flows and Wind Energy

Wind energy is a primary component of contemporary renewable energy development.
China is now the world s largest producer of wind energy.
In this talk, the speaker will describe the efforts and progress made by his research team in the study of wind energy.
Issues involved are wind turbine flow control, modeling of structural vibrations of turbine towers, offshore structures, etc.
Computational method based on the Finite Volume Method (FVM) using OpenFOAM and FLUENT softwares is being developed.
The speaker will show short animations of wind turbine flow motion obtained by these computational fluid dynamics softwares
ANSYS/FLUENT and OpenFOAM, plus several other CFD simulations.

contact: luca.formaggia@polimi.it