Wind and Renewable Energy Engineering Laboratory

The Wind and Renewable Energy Engineering Laboratory (WIRE) at EPFL focuses on improving the understanding and prediction of turbulent transport in environmental flows, particularly in the atmospheric boundary layer and wind energy systems. Their research combines experimental work, numerical modeling, and theoretical development to study areas such as wind energy, flow over complex terrain, large-eddy simulation, and boundary-layer turbulence. WIRE's expertise lies in developing a Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) code for atmospheric flows, which is crucial for studying wind turbine wakes and their interactions with the atmosphere. The lab also emphasizes analytical modeling for optimizing wind farm layouts and control strategies, using both experimental facilities and in-house numerical tools for validation.