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Open PhD-position at the geophysical institute

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There is a vacancy for a PhD position at the Geophysical Institute within offshore wind energy.

As part of the enhanced focus on renewable energy at the University of Bergen, we are going to build upon the knowledge gained through NORCOWE. We will thus perform further studies on the relations between the properties of the wind field over the ocean and the dynamic response of the wind turbine. In particular, we want to investigate floating wind turbines. Floating wind turbines are behaving differently than bottom fixed turbines as the low-frequency variations in the wind field and the fluctuations in the wake from upstream turbines will influence the dynamics. To model the dynamic response one has, in addition to consider the wind field, to include the effect of waves and current as well considering the action of the wind turbine’s control system.

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