Onera researchers are working on the behaviour of windturbines. Objective: to improve their performances in all wind speeds and also to build even more powerful windturbines... Visualization of the wake of a windturbine by numerical simulation. Taller, heavier, more powerful: just like athletes, windturbines break records year after year
. en. Who we are?. Non conventional tests. Non conventional tests. ONERA Wind Tunnel Division test facilities offer large capabilities for testing non conventional vehicles in the different speed wind conditions. Parachute. High speed train. Wind turbine. Low speed tests with non aeronautical
Today, our chief market is windturbines, but in the medium term, we are targeting the aeronautics market... Finally, the windturbine sector has shown a lot of interest: before setting up a wind farm, you have to know the wind's profile, at several different altitudes... The ever increasing height of windturbines, however, means that before long a mast of 160 meters (half the height of the Eiffel Tower) will be needed simply in order to place the anemometer on it