Open AccessThe Science of Making Torque from Wind 2020 (TORQUE 2020)
Author(s) -
Simon Watson
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1618/1/011001
Subject(s) - wind power , work (physics) , turbine , aerodynamics , torque , renewable energy , engineering , aeronautics , meteorology , mechanical engineering , aerospace engineering , electrical engineering , geography , physics , thermodynamics
Wind power is starting to make a significant contribution to the decarbonisation of our energy systems throughout the world, though much remains to be done. Although, wind turbine technology is seen as commercially viable and, in many cases, now, subsidy-free, there are still a number of basic grand challenges in wind energy that the scientific and industrial community must address [1]. These include: providing a better understanding of atmospheric flows and how they interact with windfarms; an improved understanding of the aerodynamic, structural and hydrodynamic behaviour of wind turbines; and how to integrate ever greater volumes of wind energy into our electrical grids. Europe has become very much a centre for the scientific and industrial expertise to address these challenges. To provide a focus for academic research in wind energy, the European Academy of Wind Energy (EAWE) was founded. The Academy has become arguably the world’s leading association of academic institutes active in wind energy. Amongst its many activities, EAWE founded a conference where leading researchers from around the world could present their work related to wind turbine technology. The conference was called The Science of Making Torque from Wind (or TORQUE, for short) and its inaugural edition was held in Delft in 2004. The conference has gone from strength to strength and is probably the largest scientific conference devoted to wind energy in the world. History came full circle and the eighth edition, TORQUE 2020 was due to be held in Delft again in the spring of 2020. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic meant that the hosting of a physical conference was no longer possible, so the host, the TU Delft Wind Energy Institute at the Delft University of Technology moved the conference fully online. Following the call for three-page abstracts, more than 500 submissions were made and, after a two-stage per review process by over 150 reviewers, nearly 320 full papers were accepted for publication in the proceedings. The online conference consists of three plenary session, 28 parallel oral sessions and five poster sessions. Due to the online nature of the conference, oral presentations are to be kept short (eight minutes each) and plenary keynotes are restricted to 15 minutes to allow plenty of time for discussion. All poster presenters are allowed a recorded one-minute pitch which can be accessed during the online poster sessions.