FLOW partners present latest research at EUROMECH Colloquium 669

From 22 to 24 April 2026, three FLOW partners participated in EUROMECH Colloquium 669, held in London, UK. The event brought together experts from turbulence research, wind energy and industry to discuss key challenges related to offshore wind, particularly wind farm wakes, blockage effects and atmospheric flow modelling.

Representing FLOW, James Bleeg from DNV, Stefan Ivanell from Uppsala University, and Johan Meyers from KU Leuven presented their latest research, contributing to discussions on how advanced modelling approaches can support more efficient and resilient wind farms.

• James Bleeg presented “Inviscid influences on wind farm flows”, focusing on how non-turbulent effects, such as terrain-induced pressure gradients, blockage and atmospheric stratification, can influence wake development and recovery.

• Stefan Ivanell presented “Recent Advances in Faster-than-Realtime LES of Wind Farm Flows”, highlighting developments in large eddy simulations, lattice Boltzmann methods and GPU-based modelling to enable faster and more scalable wind farm flow simulations.

• Johan Meyers presented “Simulation and modelling of wind-farm blockage”, addressing the physics of wind-farm blockage and the development of fast modelling approaches, including blockage corrections for classical wake models.

Their participation reflects FLOW’s commitment to improving the understanding and prediction of atmospheric flow, loads and power performance in wind energy systems.

By sharing these contributions with the wider scientific community, FLOW partners continue to support the development of more accurate tools for wind farm design and performance assessment.