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Delft University in Wind. BK. CiTG. 3ME. EWI. IO. TBM. TNW. LR. Part of Delft Energy Initiative. 13 research groups, 30-35 PhD’s, acquisition for another 20. Duwind is one of Europe’s oldest / largest academic R&D groups. Duwind is a formal TUD institute.
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Delft University in Wind BK CiTG 3ME EWI IO TBM TNW LR Part of Delft Energy Initiative 13 research groups, 30-35 PhD’s, acquisition for another 20. Duwind is one of Europe’s oldest / largest academic R&D groups
Duwind is a formal TUD institute • An Executive Board: deans + rector (meets almost never) • An International Advisory Board, together with ECN (twice a year) • Internal meetings: once a month a work-lunch
Strong and weak points Strong: • bottom-up, based on >30 y of cooperation • Duwind has no R&D money, only common acquisition • All activities are content based Weak: • Duwind has no R&D money, only common acquisition • Financial support by faculties for overhead
PhD programme of Duwind 2009-2013 Bijl, vanBussel, Ferreira experiments / analysis & design / advanced NavierStokes Analysis, feasibility, lab tests / small scale field-test / large scale field-test vanKuik Bersee, van Wingerden Zaaijer, Tomiyama, Polinder, Multidisciplinary design methods, component and system design, electric power conversion, vdTempel , Cerda Salzmann Support structures, access systems, Floating offshore (combined with wave energy?) Gibescu, Bauer, Kunneke grid connection & integration, market & institutions, with other sust.energy sources in DRI-TUD
New: DUWIND MSc Wind Energy • Until now: Wind Energy at a MSc level • about 40 MSc students / y on wind topics in the 5 Duwind-faculties, in a faculty-MSc programme • Thé route for specialization • From sept. 2012 on: an official MSc Wind Energy • An interfaculty MSc, supported by 5 faculties • Focus on design & integration, not specialization