Wind Farms in Complex Terrains

The increasing need of green energy in Europe has lead to the growth of wind farms both off-shore and over complex terrains where hills, forestry and in general surface inhomogeneities make the wind-resource assessment more challenging than in off-shore sites. There are several open issues that are now investigated by the wind-energy and fluid-dynamic communities to improve the current evaluation methodologies and, simultaneously, to increase the physical understating of such complex flow scenarios.
The proposed colloquium is motivated by the need to gather researchers actively working in the wind-energy field, compare the available experimental/numerical/analytical techniques and propose new ideas to improve the current know-how.