Research study OWID – Off-shore wind design parameter

Of central importance for successful technical off-shore wind energy development is a detailed, reliable knowledge about the site conditions, in particular regarding extreme wind events, turbulence and wind shear. Only then can suitable and cost-effective turbine technology be designed and it can be verified that this technology can stand the site conditions.

The overall aim of the OWID project is to assess wind data recorded at the FINO 1 off-shore platform, to derive site parameters relevant for mechanical loads, to compare those parameters to current standards and to conduct dynamical simulations of current off-shore wind turbines using the site parameters obtained.

DEWI is the project co-ordinator of this mixed private/public funded off-shore wind energy research project and is responsible for the work package "Wake Effects Modelling", where software is developed for off-shore wind farm assessment using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) methods.

DEWI’s majority-owned subsidiary DEWI-OCC is involved in dynamical simulations of off-shore wind turbine behaviour within that project. The research centre Karlsruhe is another project partner, who works on quantifying the meteorological conditions at the FINO1 platform that are relevant for the design of offshore wind turbines.

OWID web site
OWID web site (FZ Karlsruhe)
Projektziel (in German)