Wind energy research at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg has gained international recognition by its integration into ForWind – Center for Wind Energy Research of the Universities of Oldenburg, Hannover and Bremen and the national Wind Energy Research Alliance of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems (IWES) and ForWind.
At ForWind, we maintain and value collaboration between our research groups and partner institutions such as the European Academy of Wind Energy members. In Oldenburg, our 50 researchers from physics, meteorology and engineering are collaborating at the WindLab centred on wind physics. Our mission is to develop an improved understanding of atmospheric and wind power plant flow physics required to serve the global demand for clean and affordable electricity.
Therefore, we conduct laboratory experiments, free-field measurements and HPC-based numerical simulations. Our research facilities comprise three turbulent wind tunnels with fully controlled model wind turbines and wind farms of different sizes, various equipment for free-field measurements at on- and offshore wind farms and a high-performance computing cluster for atmospheric flow simulations. We have direct access to the DLR research wind farm WiValdi (https://windenergy-researchfarm.com), where among others, control experiments on two utility-scale wind turbines are conducted. Almost all our projects combine analyses at more than one of these infrastructures.
Further information is available at www.forwind.de/en/ and https://uol.de/en/physics/research/we-sys.
