Lift-Off for the WindLocator – the CWD’s Airborne Wind Measuring System
Steep territory, differences in roughness or tunnel effects create wind phenomena that lead to yield differences of more than 30% between individual turbines within a single wind farm if the latter is set in complex terrain. The WindLocator, the airborne wind measuring system developed by the Center for Windpower Drives, makes autonomous, position-controlled measuring of local wind situations and thus yield-optimized park planning possible.
Learn more about the technology behind the WindLocator and its possibilities.
News
-
Paper Download “Aeroelastic response of a multi-megawatt upwind horizontal axis wind turbine (HAWT) based on fluid–structure interaction simulation”
Learn more about “Aeroelastic response of a multi-megawatt upwind horizontal axis wind turbine (HAWT) based on fluid–structure interaction simulation” – the latest scientific article by Yasir Shkara and Martin Cardaun published...[more]
-
Alaaf! It’s time for some fancy dresses – we highly recommend: wind turbines
Wishing everyone a good time at German carnival![more]
-
ENERCON turbine successfully tested
The measurement campaign of the most powerful wind turbine (WT) conducted on the CWD 4 MW system test bench so far, was successfully completed in January of this year. As part of the joint research project CertBench, the Enercon...[more]
-
From patent to gold: Tim Schröder’s conical sliding bearing FlexPad receives Windpower Monthly’s gold medal for "Best Drivetrain 2019"
As part of WEA-GLiTS, a project funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), a novel bearing concept based on segmented sliding bearings called FlexPad has been developed and tested at the CWD to serve as the...[more]
-
Congratulations to Bjoern Roscher on his successful PhD defense!
He’s done it in 5 years‘ time: congratulations to Bjoern Roscher on his successful PhD defense! Bjoern convinced with his thesis “Multi-dimensionale Windparkoptimierung in der Planungsphase“. While leading the CWD group on Wind...[more]
-
Congratulations to Francisco Guzman on his successful PhD defense!
Congratulations to Francisco Gutiérrez Guzman on his successful PhD defense! Francisco convinced with his PhD thesis “White Etching Cracks in ölgeschmierten Wälzkontakten”. Being part of the MSE management team, he leads the...[more]