Johns Hopkins University and Portland State University received funding from the National Science Foundation and WETO on a project that will help unlock the vast potential of floating offshore wind farms in the United States.
Wind Energy Technologies Office
August 14, 2024
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In a joint collaboration, Johns Hopkins University and Portland State University received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO) on a project that will help unlock the vast potential of floating offshore wind farms in the United States. The project combines computational and experimental methods to develop more accurate tools for the design and optimization of wind farms in the deep ocean. Developing better tools allows researchers to improve their understanding of wind-wave-turbine interactions, which will lead to more accurate simulations and improved turbine and platform designs.
This award is co-sponsored by WETO and NSF's Fluid Dynamics Program as part of a joint effort to co-fund groundbreaking research on fluid dynamics to advance U.S. wind energy. Topics of interest include areas of aerodynamics of wind turbine blades and rotors, air/sea interactions and the impact of waves on offshore wind turbines, and technologies that characterize the ocean environment to inform wind energy design and operations.
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.