WINDPOWER 2012 Scientific Sessions


No Track but Still on Track

While there is no scientific track this year, there will be no shortage of scientific sessions.   In fact, if the scientific sessions were put together to form a track it would be the biggest track at WINDPOWER with these 7 sessions:

  • Opening Scientific Session: The Science of the Wind Industry

  • Modeling & Measurement – Current Advances in the State of the Art

  • Wind Turbine Blade Design, Analysis, and Manufacturing

  • Investigating Advanced Wind Forecasting Techniques

  • Performance and Reliability

  • Innovative Research in Offshore Wind Technologies

  • Expanding the Science behind Wind Integration Analysis

The scientific sessions are included with the tracks associated with their particular topic area.  These scientific sessions include longer presentations to allow for a deep dive into the information presented by leading researchers and industry experts.  Additionally, the new Academic Track in the program will also include some scientific presentations. For details on these sessions and other sessions see the detailed program page.


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AWEA and John Wiley and Son's publisher are continuing their partnership, to enable the top final papers from WINDPOWER's Scientific Session presenters to be published in Wind Energy, an international journal for progress and applications in wind power conversion technology.  The partnership on scientific sessions not only highlights the best papers presented at the conference but the best research being done in the industry. Papers go through an rigorous peer-review process by Wiley's international Editorial Board.

Here are the top papers presented first during WINDPOWER, now being shared amongst researchers from around the world through the Wind Energy Journal :

Application of probabilistic wind power forecasting in electricity markets
By Zhi Zhou, Audun Botterud, Jianhui Wang, Ricardo Bessa, Hrvoje Keko, Jean Sumaili, Vladimiro Miranda

Investigation of data fusion applied to health monitoring of wind turbine drivetrain components
By Shuangwen Sheng, Paula Dempsey

'Good' or 'bad' wind power forecasts: A relative concept
By R.J. Bessa, V. Miranda, A. Botterud and J. Wang

Structural health monitoring of wind turbines: method and application to a HAWT
By Douglas Adams, Jonathan White, Mark Rumsey and Charles Farrar

Sources of time-varying contact stress and misalignments in wind turbing planetary sets
By A. Crowther, V. Ramakrishnan, N. A. Zaidi and Chris Halse

Power performance of wind energy converters characterized as stochastic process: Applications of the Langevin power curve
By Matthias Wachter, Patrick Milan, Tanja Mucke, Joachim Peinke

Correction factors for NRG #40 anemometers potentially affected by dry friction whip: characterization, analysis, and validation
By Erik Hale, Lesley Fusina, Michael Brower

To read any of these papers follow this link.

"The Scientific Track provides conference attendees a chance to see the breadth, depth, and creativity of the research going on in the U.S. and around the world as it happens. Leading edge work will highlight important issues that are still unresolved, and will reveal innovations that could enable the next great strides forward in wind technology. Authors have the opportunity to publish their work in a quality archival journal, Wind Energy, to maximize value and accessibility for the long term. It is a win-win for authors and attendees of the WINDPOWER conference."  Dr. Paul Veers, Chief Engineer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), National Wind Technology Center