Environmental Wind Engineering and Wind Energy Structures
Invited Lecturers
- Charalampos C. Baniotopoulos ( Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
- 5 lectures on: "Design of wind energy structures". Overview of the typical design process of wind turbine towers, structural analysis models, loading and design checks, stability issues of the cylindrical/conical shells, stiffeners, door/openings, design of the foundation, anchoring systems, pre-tensioned bolts/connectors. Optimization issues and innovative aspects with respect to the tower design.
- Bert Blocken (Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
- 5 lectures on: "Computational wind engineering (CWE)". CWE for building aerodynamics, with special emphasis on grid quality, turbulence modelling, consistent atmospheric boundary layer modeling, verification and validation. Case studies will be presented where CWE has been applied to analyse pedestrian-level winds and air pollutant dispersion around buildings.
- Claudio Borri (Università di Firenze, Italy)
- 5 lectures on: "Large wind turbines in earthquake areas: structural analyses, design/construction & in-situ testing". Static and dynamic analyses of wind turbine towers, aeroelastic loads by large rotor blades, wind–earthquake load combination; design and verification of r.c. precasted elements and longitudinal prestressing; verifications according IEC 61400, Eurocodes and Italian standards; design and verifications of foundations structures; piled and superficial foundations (with and without buoyancy); construction/erection technology; monitoring and testing techniques on site (through radar interferometry).
- Rex Britter (University of Cambridge, UK)
- 5 lectures on: "Dispersion of pollutants". Dispersion in the urban environment, regional, city, neighbourhood, street and source scales. Urban climatology, regional air pollution models, estimation of transport of pollutants from and to cities. Field experimentation and CFD applications.
- Peter Schaumann (Leibniz University Hanover, Germany)
- 5 lectures on: "Steel substructures of onshore and offshore wind energy systems". Wind energy converters, in particular loads and load cases for structural design, safety concept, discussion of different types of substructures, detailed design and assessment of ULS (buckling, fatigue, connections), loads and design of offshore substructures, erection process, recent research results.
- Ted Stathopoulos (Concordia University, Canada)
- 5 lectures on: "Environmental aerodynamics". Introduction to environmental aerodynamics and the description of the wind characteristics including the significance of turbulence, exposure and climatology from the design perspective. Wind environmental issues, pedestrian winds, dispersion of pollutants in the building environment.
- Alberto Zasso (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
- 5 lectures on: "Aerodynamic design of wind structures". Introduction on the state of the art guidelines for the aerodynamic design of wind turbines (codes and numerical methods). Wind tunnel test challenges in Wind Energy: orography and wake effects on power generation. Wind turbines scale modelling and wake characterization techniques for wind tunnel testing.