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Simulation of the flows around wind turbines
Fundamental Research
News 23 September 2020

Wind energy: a new numerical tool to support the sector’s future

Encouraged by the French long-term energy program, the increasing roll-out of wind energy technology is associated with new challenges. To address these, IFPEN, working in partnership with Météo France (the French national weather service), has developed a numerical tool capable of highly realistic modeling.

Éolien offshore et énergies marines
Innovation and Industry

Our strengths
wind energY Our strengths • More than 12 years’ experience in the field, with a team of around thirty FTE staff dedicated to wind energy, alongside 5 to 10 doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers. • Active in several segments of the value chain, with packages aimed at wind energy development
Offshore wind and ocean energies
Innovation and Industry

Our solutions
Wind energy Our solutions IFPEN develops innovative solutions aimed at facilitating the implementation of new projects and optimizing energy production on both a turbine scale and an onshore and offshore farm scale. Research results are transferred in tools marketed by partners. IFPEN also proposes collaborative research in the form of
Offshore wind and ocean energies
Innovation and Industry

Our networks
wind energY Our networks IFPEN’s wind energy research is conducted within the context of an excellence network including industrial and academic partners: the Ancre alliance, the International Energy Agency’s Technological Cooperation Program, IEA Wind, in which IFPEN represents France on the Executive Committee and coordinates a task dedicated to the
Wind energy
Innovation and Industry

Wind energy
wind energY OVERVIEW AND CHALLENGES The global development of wind energy is being driven by several factors: evolving technologies, a cost per kWh that is set to fall further, managed environmental impacts, the wider consultation of other users upstream of projects. There is significant potential in Europe to develop wind
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Optimizing the electric cable of a floating wind turbine
Floating wind turbine technologies, such as those co-developed by SBM and IFPEN a , are designed to optimize the recovery of offshore wind energy. Optimization solutions are currently being sought to
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Improvement of hydrodynamic models for floating wind turbines
The development of floating platforms for offshore wind turbines, to replace fixed foundations, paves the way for the harnessing of wind reserves in ultra-deep offshore zones. The potential is
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Semi-crystalline polymers: clays that are ignored?
In the energy sector, semi-crystalline polymers a are primarily used within structures located in aggressive environments, to form coatings (waterproofing, thermal or electric barriers). These
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Wind farms – a more effective layout using modeling
The development of wind farms requires the optimal placement of wind turbines in relation to each other in order to maximize overall production. If the turbines are too close to each other, wake
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Wind turbines have the wind in their sails, thanks to GPUs
IFPEN has been carrying out research in the field of floating wind turbines for a number of years, developing, for this purpose, the DeepLines Wind TM simulation tool, in partnership with Principia (1
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Floating wind turbine: increasing reliability in an “ocean of possibilities”
The optimal design of mechanical structures is hampered by the imperfect knowledge of the environmental conditions under which they will operate. The systematic incorporation of the resulting