Département Mécanique - UMons

Value chain

-Methods of pre-project, design and optimization of aerodynamic blade profile for horizontal or vertical axis wind turbines. Analysis of wind potential for onshore and offshore, Belgium and Walloon region sites.

• Assessment and cartography of wind potential in the Walloon Region, Belgium, onshore, inshore and offshore sites.

• Draft methods and aerodynamics design of lift based wind turbines

• Performance analysis by CFD simulations of horizontal and vertical axis wind turbines

• Geometrical optimization of aerodynamic performances

• Problem and analysis of fluid-structure interactions

• Analysis of unsteady effects, wake and rotor/stator interactions

• Effect of heart boundary layer

• Technical and economic feasibility studies of single wind turbine solution or combined wind/photovoltaic/thermal production systems for renewable energy

• Wind generation stochastical modeling: Development of well-suited statistical model for wind generation in the case of reliability studies led on large electrical networks (study of the inter-correlation between wind parks, adequate clustering of wind data,...)

• Impact on transmission grids: Introduction of wind generation in a software used for investments and reliability evaluation of a given transmission grid (for example, the software Scanner: collaboration with Tractebel Engineering).

• Development of variable speed wind generator test bench: Development of a micro-wind generator: development of a test bench using a doubly-fed asynchronous generator with use of the Dspace software.