On 3 October, we once again took part in Mouse Day, which had the motto ‘ZusammenTun’ (working together), this year. We welcomed many interested children and their parents to our wind tunnel.
The Institute of Wind Engineering and Fluid Mechanics at Ruhr-Universität Bochum organised a workshop as part of the COST action ‘MODENERLANDS - Modular Energy Islands for Sustainability and Resilience’ on 2 and 3 September 2024 at the Beckmannshof at the Botanical Garden of Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
On Friday, 19.07.2024, on the initiative of Prof. Höffer, a meeting took place between the Chamber of Engineers Construction NRW, represented by Dr. Peiffer and Ms. Hendriks, and representatives of the Civil Engineering Student Council of the RUB in the meeting room of the WIST working group. A short summary of the results of the discussion can be found on the website of the Chamber of Engineers under read more.
As in previous years, employees from the WIST working group took part in this year's AOK company run to promote employee health.
Last week's VIV Symposium 2024 provided a platform for discussion and knowledge exchange on vortex-induced vibration (VIV) in slender structures and wind turbines with experts from universities, research institutes, the wind energy industry and certification bodies.
Dr Cornelia Kalender is a researcher in the Wind Engineering and Fluid Mechanics working group at Ruhr University Bochum.
Dr Francesca Lupi, project leader of an ongoing DFG transfer research project (project number 493357786) of the working group WiSt, was honoured with the "CICIND Presidential Award" in recognition of her contributions to wind engineering research.
We are delighted to invite you to the VIV Symposium 2024, on June 6th - 7th, 2024, Bochum, organized together with Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy supported by DFG (Project number: 493357786). You can now register for this symposium under the heading Research - Workshops and Seminars here on the website.
On Thursday, 25 January, Ika Kurniawati from our group had the opportunity to visit the hydrodynamics laboratory LadHyX, CNRS of the Ecole Polytechnique de Paris, France, on invitation.
On the second day of the 15th Structural Engineering Conference in Hamburg, the mini-symposium on "Wind Engineering and Coupled Problems" organised by Dr. Cornelia Kalender and Prof. Roland Wüchner took place.
On 4 and 5 March, we will contribute to a mini-symposium in the field of "Wind Engineering and Coupled Problems" at the "15th Symposium on Structural Analysis - Building Practice" in Hamburg.
On February 4, 2024, the first section of the Leverkusen A1 bridge was officially put into operation and opened to traffic. Both the bridge deck and the pylon were examined in detail in the Bochum boundary layer wind tunnel, including for various construction stages.
We are pleased to invite you to a comprehensive workshop and seminar to develop, discuss and share insights for the further development of wind energy. The VIV Symposium will take place on June 6 and 7, 2024 in Bochum.
We are pleased to announce that we will be participating in the WhICH ROUGH project as part of ERIES.
Improvement of the immission situation in residential areas by adapting the discharge conditions - replacement measures for chimney raising (Federal Environment Agency FKZ 3722 19 301 0)