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Advanced Offshore Wind Energy Utilization Lab
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A lab that uses experiments and computation to understand wind flow for offshore wind power.
AboutAbout the lab
Measuring and predicting wind to expand offshore wind power
The Advanced Offshore Wind Energy Utilization Lab aims to improve the ability to understand and predict local wind flows at the height of human living spaces.
Taking the growing demand for offshore wind power as a pillar of its research, the lab works through indoor experiments in a large wind tunnel and numerical wind simulations on supercomputers.
The lab also conducts field wind observations using remote sensing instruments and drones.
The lab's website also introduces it as the "Uchida Lab."
Key terms
- RIAM-COMPACT
- A numerical wind prediction model developed by the lab. It calculates local wind flows around buildings and complex terrain.
- Wind-lens turbine
- A wind turbine whose output is raised by a "wind lens" that concentrates wind. Its output is said to be 2 to 3 times that of a conventional turbine with the same blade radius.
- Atmospheric boundary layer
- The layer of the atmosphere in which turbulence occurs. Momentum, heat, and constituents are exchanged and transported in it.
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The lab aims to understand and predict local wind flows that occur at the height of human living spaces. Taking the growing demand for offshore wind power as a pillar of its research, it combines wind tunnel experiments, numerical wind simulation, and field wind observations.
*Illustrative imageDeveloping technology for predicting local winds
The lab studies wind around buildings, over small terrain features and complex terrain, and within cities, using wind tunnel experiments, field surveys, and numerical computation. It develops RIAM-COMPACT, a numerical wind prediction model.
*Illustrative imageWind-lens turbines and solar towers
The lab is developing a mechanism that raises wind turbine output using "wind lens" technology, which concentrates wind. Output is said to be 2 to 3 times that of a conventional turbine with the same blade radius, and this research, including solar towers, is described as having entered the stage of practical application.
*Illustrative imageStructure of the atmospheric boundary layer and wind flow
The lab investigates how momentum, heat, and constituents are exchanged in the turbulent atmospheric boundary layer. It works through both experiments using a large wind tunnel and large-scale numerical simulation.
MembersFaculty
The members of the lab are faculty members, technical officers, technical staff, technical assistants, external advisors, and doctoral and master's students.As of 2026
- ProfessorTakanori Uchida
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “1kW wind-lens turbine at Miyagi, Japan” Tomon7 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Developing technology for predicting local winds: “Altitude Wind Tunnel Drive Fan being Assembled (GRC-1943-C-01849)” NASA Glenn Research Center / Public domain (cropped)
- Wind-lens turbines and solar towers: “Solar chimney-hi” Shypoetess / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Structure of the atmospheric boundary layer and wind flow: “Catabatic wind with blizzard” Pepys / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Combined Renewable Energy Utilization Lab): “Wind turbine at the Fraisthorpe Wind Farm - geograph.org.uk - 5785135” Mat Fascione / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Turbulence Data Analysis Lab): “Openstax college-physics 22.26b tokamak-schematic” OpenStax / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Next-Generation Renewable Energy Technology Lab): “Eolink Floating Wind Turbine” marc guyot / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Marine Renewable Energy Engineering Lab): “WaveRoller wave energy farm installation in Peniche, Portugal 2012” AW-Energy Oy / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
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