2019 Theme and Subjects

When: June 12-14, 2019   Where: Lisbon

Consolidating our Knowledge

In 2019 we would like to devote a part of the conference to consolidating what we know. As Bo Sondergard said when I suggested that to him “there is no single point in time, our knowledge is always on the move”. That’s true, but I think it would be a good time to try to pull together, perhaps in literature reviews, what we know about:

• Propagation
• Annoyance and other effects on people
• Predicting background noise level
• Amplitude Modulation
• Modelling Source Noise

And, of course, what we don’t know – so where the research energy should go next.

Otherwise, we still want general papers and here are a few areas where more work is required:

• Does background noise vary with seasons?
• How well does background noise mask turbine noise?
• Small turbines – they can be as much a problem as large.
• Cyclical Pitch Control. Can it help reduce AM or overall sound power?
• How do meteorological conditions affect propagation?
• More dose response tests on turbine audible noise to allow us to produce more robust regulations.
• More ways of reducing trailing edge noise.

And, of course any other subjects that are useful to further the knowledge of Wind Turbine Noise.

Dick Bowdler

May 2018

More Information: International Conferences on Noise 2019