Urban and Low Wind Speed Research

The equipment in the lab are a vertical wind turbine, a wind tunnel and software for wind resource assessments, design of wind turbine components and integrated energy systems based on wind power.

Wind tunnel simulations will be applied to assist in decision-making regarding mass deployment of renewable energy systems within cities. Small-scale models can be developed in the department’s production lab. The goal is to identify new applications, technologies and methods for a novel wind power configuration, namely urban wind power.