Department of Environmental and Applied Fluid Dynamics (PO - EA) | Team Wind
Knowledge Institute
VKI
Address
Waterloosesteenweg 72, 1640 Sint-Genesius-Rode
Website
N° of FTE working on wind topics
More than 10
Our offshore wind expertise (general)
Atmosphere, Weather & Climate modelling
Weather & extremes: forecasting, WRA, LES, hectometer forecasting, marine atmospheric boundary layer, field campaigns for wind resource (lidar, USA, anemometer, hot wires, PIV) & precipitations (disdrometer, cielometer), Ensemble modelling and uncertainty propagation
Climate: GCM (global circulation modelling), WRA decadal timescale, CMIP, DestineE
Wakes environment: wakes on BE-NL cluster, gravity waves, intra and extra farm/cluster wakes, blockage, remote sensing wake validation
Wake modelling: fast engineering wek modelling, downscaling GCM to local conditions, accoustics & LES
Floating: experimental and numical aero-hydro elastic coupling, floating wind farm control, unmoored floating wind
Wind loadings on wind turbines, service and operations vessels, OHVS and islands, wind assisted shipping
Icing
Drone detection
Experimental testing and sensing at windtunnels at VKI and abroad
HPC, cluster management, numerical code development, Quantum computing
Our group was/is involved in these key offshore wind projects:
Horizon Europe DTWO
ETF Beforecast
Vlaio DBC icon Cloud4Wake
Our relevant equipment | tools | infrastructure
for offshore wind:
Field campaigns: vertical profile lidar at Westhinder, scanning lidar in collab with KUL-VUB, disdrometer, USA (ultra sonic anemometer);
Largest low speed subsonic windtunnel L1 at VKI, including extensive sensing equipment (ao PIV), test turbine (80 cm diameter Twist-080, and a new large scale hexapod), ao.
Other windtunnels include the Windgallery (combining wind and waves at small scale) and the icing wind tunnel.
9.3.3 AI-driven anomaly detection and cybersecurity automation
9.2 Secure SCADA systems and remote sensing and control techniques
7.1.2 Cross-border governance and international coordination of offshore wind development
5.2.2 Grid balancing and power quality management
4.1.2 Strategies for improved grid integration and power management
3.2 Installation operations
7. Policy
1.1.3 Turbulence and wake studies
3. Logistics & Installation
9.3.2 Incident modelling, digital twin simulations, and predictive security
7.2.3 Legal barriers and facilitators to offshore wind infrastructure deployment
7.1.1 Policy frameworks for spatial allocation and conflict resolution in marine areas
5.2.1 Battery and hydrogen system integration
4.1.1 Performance and Energy Yield Optimisation
6.3 Re-use and Repowering
6. End-of-Life
1.1.2 Long-term wind resource prediction
1. Site Condition assessment & engineering
9.3.1 Cyber threat detection, response, and recovery strategies
7.2.1 Analysis of regulatory frameworks and best practices across jurisdictions
7.2 Regulatory and permitting processes
5.2 Energy Storage and Hybrid Systems
4.3 Digital Twins and Simulation
6.2 Lifetime extension strategies
5. System integration
1.1.1 Wind speed and direction measurement
9.3 Cyber Resilience and Incident Management
7.1.3 Integration of offshore wind within broader marine ecosystem management
7.1 Marine spatial planning (MSP) and governance
4.3.1 O&M process modelling and simulation
4.1 Optimisation of wind farm operations
9. Cybersecurity & AI
4. Operation and Maintenance (O&M)
1.1 Wind Resource Analysis
Our offshore wind expertise (all lifecycle stages)
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