LB Wind 2026

Program

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Day 1: Wednesday 30 September 2026 

08:30 – 09:00 Registration & Welcome coffee

09:00 – 09:20 Welcome address

09:20 – 10:05 #1 Keynote presentation H. Asmuth (Uppsala University, Sweden)

10:05 – 10:35 Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of Atmospheric Flow over a Heterogeneous Forest for Wind Energy Applications
J. Bastin et al. (Uppsala University and OX2, Sweden)

10:35 – 11:05 A Coupled WRF–LBM Framework for Diurnal ABL Simulation: GABLS3 Validation
Z. Qin (Uppsala University, Sweden)

11:05 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:00 Revisiting the linear stability analysis of the lattice Boltzmann method for advection-diffusion problems
A. Suss (ONERA, France)

12:00 – 12:30 An adaptive lattice Boltzmann framework for large eddy simulation of turbulent dispersion flows over rough surfaces
R. Deiterding and D. Kashyap (Southampton University, UK)

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 14:30 Compressible Wall-Modeled Large Eddy Simulation of Wind Turbines Using Homogenized Lattice Boltzmann Methods in OpenLB
F. Bukreev et al. (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

14:30 – 15:00 Comparison of an actuator line model and an actuator cylinder model for the simulation of a tidal turbine
M. Grondeau et al. (LUSAC, France)

15:00 – 15:30 LBM-OpenFAST Coupling with Filtered Lifting Line Correction and Bayesian Polar Calibration
R. Cockcroft and B. Thornber (Queen’s University Belfast, Ireland)

15:30 – 16:00 The Partially Saturated Cells Method for Complex Moving Domains in Turbulent Flows
P. Suffa (FAU Erlangen, Germany)

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 – 17:30 Round table discussion
Panelists: F. Gharibi (Otto von Guericke Univ. of Magdeburg, Germany), J. Latt (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Moderators: H. Korb (Uppsala University, Sweden), M. Schönherr(TU-Braunschweig (iRMB), Germany)

18:30 – 22:00 Afterwork party at Bistrot La Girafe
(address: 2 Passage Napoléon III, Rueil Malmaison, 5 min walk from IFPEN)

Day 2: Thursday 1st  September 2026

08:30 – 09:00 Registration & Welcome coffee

09:00 – 09:45 #2 Keynote presentation J. Jacob (CNRS, CentraleMarseille, France)

09:45 – 10:15 A Lattice Boltzmann Model for Large-Eddy Simulation of Wind Farm Flows and Turbine Wakes
G. Evensen (NORCE Reasearch, Norway)

10:15 – 10:45 CLBM simulations of model-scale wind turbine wakes: Towards getting the dissipation right
D. Sukhman (HVL Bergen, Norway)

10:45 – 11:15 CFD-LES Simulation of Offshore Wind Farms using the Lattice Boltzmann Method
D.L. Hermida et al. (Uppsala University and Vattenfall and Nordex Energy SE, Sweden)

11:15 – 11:45 Coffee Break

11:45 – 12:15 Rotors, Wakes, and Wind Farms: Large-Scale Platform-Transparent Simulations in OpenLB
A. Kummerländer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

12:15 – 12:45 Performance and coupling comparison of VirtualFluids-HAWC2 and EllipSys3D-HAWC2 aeroelastic couplings for the IEA 22 MW reference turbine
N. Horneff et al. (Technical University of Denmak, Denmark)

12:45 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 14:30 Assessing Wake Penalties in Large-Scale Floating Offshore Wind Zones: Bridging Macro-Level Layout Optimization with High-Fidelity LBM Needs
C. Erkol (Uppsala University, Sweden)

14:30 – 15:00 Applications of waLBerla-wind for wind farm control and estimation
D. Collet et al. (IFPEN, France)

15:00 – 15:30 Conclusion & end of the Conference– Coffee Break