Prof Dr Peinke gives public evening lecture at DPG annual conference

Wind energy is regarded as a promising renewable energy source. An entire industrial sector is gaining in importance and our landscape is increasingly characterised by wind turbines. However, these systems do not yet have fully developed technology. Breakdowns and maintenance often make a decisive contribution to energy costs, especially in offshore applications. Wind energy utilisation is also closely linked to the major unsolved physical problem of turbulence.

On 28 March 2012, Oldenburg researcher Prof. Dr Joachim Peinke, head of the "Turbulence, Wind Energy and Stochastics" working group, will give a public evening lecture on this topic at the spring conference of the German Physical Society in Berlin. In the lecture, the connection between fundamental open questions of turbulence research and the challenges of wind energy utilisation, such as effective feeding into the supply grid, will be presented. Prof Peinke will show how research results from basic physics research provide new insights for wind energy utilisation applications.

Further information:

• Lecture announcement at Urania.de
• Working group "Turbulence, wind energy and stochastics"