Projects
Wind energy is crucial for realizing climate neutrality, energy independence, and energy security. SUDOCO aims to minimize the cost of valued energy (COVE), which considers energy security, storage, fluctuating electricity prices, turbine component wear, and turbine lifetime. It includes means to minimize environmental impact as well as address the variability of the wind resource. SUDOCO will combine novel dynamic control algorithms, hybrid
physics-based and data-driven models for the design of physical farms as well as wind farm scale wind tunnel testing.
SUDOCO is funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe Programme (Grant Agreement 101122256).
TWEED is a new NTUA Project funded by MSCA. Wind farm flow field analysis is a topic which lays within the research framework of this project and can be supported by the NTUA Wind Tunnel.
Training Wind Energy Experts on Digitalisation (TWEED) Doctoral Network (DN) aims to train the next generation of excellent researchers equipped with a full set of technical and complementary skills to develop high-impact careers in wind energy digitalization.
Moreover, TWEED network will accomplish the foundation of Wind Energy Data Science (WEDS) as a new research discipline across the EAWE network to raise awareness, exploit synergies, and motivate future career choices. The potential of data-intensive science as a new paradigm will allow reducing the cost of energy by as much as 13% during the project lifetime and 50% by 2050 by intelligent solutions not accessible to traditional wind energy specialists.
Wind farm flow field analysis is a topic, which lays within the research framework of wind energy, that can be supported by the NTUA Wind Tunnel.
MSCA, Grant agreement ID: 101168673 (1 September 2024 - 31 August 2028)
The TWEET-IE project aims to upgrade the Wind Tunnel (WT) testing activities at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). The NTUA WT will be rendered on par with other world class facilities for hosting a variety of research applications in the field of external aerodynamics, primarily focusing on clean-tech, energy and transport applications. It includes knowledge transfer and networking activities with 4 leading European universities, which have all been successfully operating their own large WTs for decades and have remarkable scientific and research track records. Project# 101079125, HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03-01 (1 November 2022 - 31 October 2025)
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AGREE is a new NTUA Wind Tunnel project funded by HFRI.
AGREE will develop a new Gust Generation mechanism for the NTUA Wind Tunnel. The new device will be combined with the existing state-of-the-art Aeroelastic Airfoil set-up to create a world leading facility.
A gust is simply a flow structure that exists in the environment and causes unsteadiness in the flow about a lifting surface, ultimately resulting in unsteady loading on that surface. They are ubiquitous in the atmospheric boundary layer, caused by the weather and the roughness of the topography.
AGREE aims to provide a step change in our understanding of the aeroelastic response to gusts at flow conditions relevant to industrial UAV applications. Further, we aim to explore the capabilities of a recently patented morphing wing structure to offer gust load alleviations.
Project Partners are: IDPortal Ltd, the von Karman Institute for Fluid Mechanics
Links: https://idportal.net/idportal/, https://www.vki.ac.be/
The research project is implemented in the framework of H.F.R.I call “Basic research Financing (Horizontal support of all Sciences)” under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan “Greece 2.0” funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU (H.F.R.I. Project Number:016749)
Experimental and numerical methods to assess the role of stReet trees as a Nature-Based Solution for climate change adaptation of Cities
Re.Nature Cities aims to evaluate via experimental and simulation means the ability of street trees as nature-based solution (NBS), to act as an effective measure against the increased air temperature on the ambient and indoor environment, thermal discomfort, air pollution and energy costs, caused due to the climate change, while promoting the public health and the well-being of the citizens
The National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), is a Collaborating Organization of the Re.Nature Cities project and the Host institution of the project is the University of Patras, Department of Civil Engineering. NTUA participates through the School of Mechanical Engineering, Fluids Section and assures the wind tunnel measurements of the drag coefficient of common urban tree species.
Zenodο: https://zenodo.org/records/14442184
The research project is implemented in the framework of H.F.R.I call “Basic research Financing (Horizontal support of all Sciences)” under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan “Greece 2.0” funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU (H.F.R.I. Project Number: 15566).
