von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics

The H2020 Zephyr project aims at fostering a training-through-research network of young researchers, where the early stage researchers will investigate and further develop promising emerging technologies enabling a more efficient harvesting of wind energy resources in ‘conventional’ on-shore as well as urban environments through more accurate and robust simulation methodologies, supported by laboratory experiments and theoretical models, and applying novel optimization approaches.

This video presents the didactic demonstrator that the early stage researchers built together to explain with simple words the main outcomes of our research and the impact that this has on our lives and society.

The objective of this demonstrator is also to reduce the gap between the scientific community and the general public. During their research, they asked themselves what is the impact of the local terrain and atmospheric variability on wind turbine performance, structural dynamics and noise. Since they studied a wide variety of topics, they decided to divide the demonstrator in two parts, rural and urban.