Training

TWIND developed an Offshore Wind Training Programme for early stage researchers (ESRs) and staff to increase employability in the field of offshore wind energy in Portugal.

Here you will find information about the TWIND short courses and other training activities.

TWIND SHORT COURSE – Design and Testing of Offshore Wind Turbines and Farms
17-21 October 2022
Links to the presentations

👉 SCHEDULE

👉Monday October 17^th 2022

• Axelle Vire – TU DELFT
  “Welcome and course introduction”
• Michiel Zaaijer – TU DELFT
  “Wind farm design”
• Michiel Zaaijer – TU DELFT
  “Wind turbine rotor design”

👉Tuesday October 18^th 2022

• Dries Allaerts – TU DELFT
  “Atmospheric phenomena for wind energy”
• B.C. (Bart) Ummels  – TU DELFT
  “Electrical infrastructure”
• George Lavidas – TU DELFT
  “Offshore resource”

👉Wednesday October 19^th 2022

• Jan-Willem van Wingerden – TU DELFT
  “Control – Fixed turbines”
• Jan-Willem van Wingerden – TU DELFT
  “Control – Floating turbines”
• Sebastian Schreier – TU DELFT
  “Floating support structures and moorings”

👉Thursday October 20^th 2022

• Donatella Zappalá – TU DELFT
  “Wind farm maintenance”
• Wim Bierbooms – TU DELFT
  “Wind loads”

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TWIND Online Summer School
5th – 9th July 2021
Links to the presentations and recordings

👉Monday July 5^th 2021

• Morning session: Data-driven Modelling (C)
  • Recording: NOT available
  • Presentations:
    • C-KN1 – Richard P. Dwight – TU Delft
      “Data-driven approaches to physical modelling in CFD in CFD”
    • C-SP1 – Craig White – Wavec Offshore Renewables
      “Techno-economic assessment of floating offshore wind turbines to reduce LCOE”
    • C-SP2 – Deepali Singh – TU Delft
      “Data driven surrogate modeling for load prediction on offshore wind turbines”

• Afternoon session: Aerodynamics (A)
  • Recording: YouTube
  • Presentations:
    • A-KN1 – Axelle Viré – TU Delft
      “Floating offshore wind energy at TU Delft”
    • A-KN2 – Guilherme Vaz – WavEC
      “Aerodynamics of Offshore Wind Turbines”
    • A-SP1 – Ricardo Amaral – TU Delft
      “Aerodynamics of floating offshore wind turbines undergoing large motions”
    • A-SP2 – Claudia Muscari – TU Delft, Polimi
      “On the free stream velocity sampling in AL Models: review and assessment with respect to wake description”
    • A-SP3 – Marinos Manolesos – Swansea University
      “Thick airfoils, Vortex Generators, Gurney Flaps and Flatback Solutions: How to get better performance out of the blade inner region?”

👉Tuesday July 6^th 2021

• Morning session: Hydrodynamics (G)
  • Recording: YouTube
  • Presentations:
    • G-KN1 – Miren J. Sánchez Lara – Tecnalia R&I
      “Challenges in the hydrodynamics modelling of FOWT”
    • G-KN2 – Iñigo Mendikoa – Tecnalia Research & Innovation
      “Mooring System Design for Floating Platforms”

• Afternoon session: Hydrodynamics (G)
  • Recording: YouTube
  • Presentations:
    • G-SP1 – Federica Perassi – TUDelft
      “Fluid structure interaction between vertical-axis tidal turbine and floating structure” 
    • G-SP2 – Manuel Rentschler – WavEC Offshore Renewables
      “CFD code comparison, verification and validation for a floating wind semi-submersible platform” 
    • G-SP3 – Likhitha Ramesh Reddy – Delft University of Technology
      “Hydrodynamic modeling of floating offshore wind turbines”
    • G-SP4 – Alistair Lee – Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult
      “Mooring System Design”
    • G-SP5 – Daniel Milano – ORE Catapult
      “Floating Offshore Wind design and modelling”

👉Wednesday July 7^th 2021

• Morning session: Control Systems (B)
  • Recording: YouTube
  • Presentations:
    • B-KN1 – Jan-Willem van Wingerden – TU Delft
      “Smart wind farms” (Not available)
    • B-SP1 – Javier Lopez – Tecnalia
      “Floating offshore wind turbine vibration control” 
    • B-SP2 – Michael Smailes; Ampea Karikari-Boateng – ORE Catapult
      “Wind Turbine & Wind Farm Control” 
    • B-SP3 – Daniel van den Berg -TU Delft
      “Enhanced Wake-Mixing with Floating Offshore Wind Turbines”

•  Afternoon session: Energy Storage & Hydrogen (E) & Hydrodynamics (G)
  • Recording: YouTube
  • Presentations:
    • E-KN1 – Ad van Wijk – TU Delft
      “Hydrogen the global zero carbon energy carrier” 
    • E-SP1 – Andre Novgorodcev – TUDelft
      “Development of a Underwater Gravity Energy Storage (UGES) concept for offshore applications” 
    • E-SP2 – Omar Ibrahim – University College Cork
      “Coupling Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Farms with Green Hydrogen Production and Transportation” (Not available)
    • E-SP3 – Dr. John Nwobu – Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult
      “Battery Energy Storage in Offshore Wind Farms” (Not available)
    • E-SP4 – Dr. John Nwobu – Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult
      “Towards Achieving Net Zero: Green Hydrogen from Offshore Wind” (Not available)
    • G-SP6 – Razieh Jalal Abadi – University College London
      “Large Eddy Simulation of open-channel flow over square bars at different Reynolds numbers”

👉Thursday July 8^th 2021

• Morning session: Operations and Maintenance (H)
  • Recording: YouTube
  • Presentations:
    • H-KN1 – Donatella Zappalá – TU Delft
      “Optimization of Wind Farm Maintenance: Reliability and Condition Monitoring” (Not available)
    • H-SP1 – Mário Alberto Vieira – +ATLANTIC CoLAB
      “Introducing O&M in Marine Energy Technologies” 
    • H-SP2 – Laurie Wilkins – Jeremy Benn Associates (JBA) Consultings
      “The effects of climate change on offshore wind operations and maintenance” (Not available)

• Afternoon session: Operations and Maintenance (H) & Experimental Methods (F)
  • Recording: YouTube
  • Presentations:
    • H-SP3 – Mingxin Li – TU Delft
      “An optimized opportunistic maintenance strategy for offshore wind farms”
    • H-SP4 – Chunjiang Jia – ORE Catapult
      “Data-driven modelling for power module condition monitoring”
    • F-KN1 – Sara Muggiasca – Politecnico di Milano
      “Experimental tests on FOWT models”
    • F-SP1 – German Perez – Tecnalia
      “Wave tank and wind tunnel experimental campaigns in H2020 LIFES50+ project  (GA640741)”
    • F-SP2 – Felipe Novais – Politecnico di Milano
      “A Hardware-in-The-Loop System for Model Testing of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines in a Wind Tunnel” 
    • F-SP3 – Alejandro Jimenez del Toro – ÉireComposites Teo.
      “Automated tape placement of carbon fibre reinforced thermoplastics for offshore wind turbine blades” 

👉Friday July 9^th 2021

• Morning session: Electrical systems (D)
  • Recording: YouTube
  • Presentations:
    • D-KN1 – Paul McKeever – ORE Catapult
      The changing role of electrical systems in the offshore wind sector” 
    • D-KN2 – Francesco Boscolo Papo – Tecnalia Research and Innovation
      “Design of dynamic cable for floating platforms”
    • D-SP1 – Will Brindley – ORE Catapult
      “Dynamic Cable Design” – Part I; Part II; Part III, Part IV, Part V

• Afternoon session: Electrical systems (D), Project Management/Farm Design (J) & Offshore Wind Potential (I)
  • Recording: YouTube
  • Presentations:
    • D-SP2 – Pan Fang – Delft University of Technology 3ME
      “Bending test of dynamic power cables” (Not available)
    • D-SP3 – Manuel Rentschler – WavEC Offshore Renewables
      “Dynamic cable research at WavEC – Layout optimization & bending experiments”
    • J-SP1 – Amorina Gonzalez Armayor – WavEC
      “The use of project management to reduce costs”
    • J-SP2 – Matteo Baudino Bessone – Delft University of Technology
      “Review on floating offshore wind farm design: identification of the interactions between subsystems”
    • I-KN1 – Rodrigo Rojas – National University of Costa Rica
      “Offshore wind potential in Costa Rica: Boosting a plan towards road map”