Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg Institute of Physics, ForWind - Center for Wind Energy Research

Wind energy research at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg has gained international recognition by its integration into ForWind – Center for Wind Energy Research of the Universities of Oldenburg, Hannover and Bremen and into the national Wind Energy Research
Alliance of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems (IWES) and ForWind. At Oldenburg, researchers from the fields of physics, meteorology and engineering are collaborating at the »Research Laboratory for Turbulence and Wind Energy
Systems« centred on wind physics. Laboratory experiments, free-field measurements and HPC-based numerical simulations are utilized.
Main topics include the description and modelling of wind turbulence, the analysis of interactions of turbulent atmospheric wind flow and
wind energy systems as well as control of wind turbines and wind farms. State-of-the-art facilities comprise three turbulent wind tunnels,
different sensing equipment for free-field measurements at on- and offshore wind farms and an own high-performance computing cluster.