Wind Turbine Noise 2015

2015 - Workshops and Programme notes

Starts at 11:00am chaired by Geoff Leventhall who started these conferences in 2005 in Berlin.
There is a theme paper by Jonathan Sims about propagation modelling with PE.
Then the rest of the day will be about sound propagation.

There are a range of posters in five groups covering source noise, including sound power measurement, noise at receivers with several posters dealing with windscreens and low frequency noise and infrasound.
Frits van den Berg who has been giving papers since the first conference Berlin will introduce the posters over drinks.

Starts with David Michaud from Health Canada telling us more about their study on Wind Turbine Noise and Health, followed by more papers on health effects.
The rest of the day is taken up with regulations, the receiving environment including a look at internal noise from Hideki Tachibana and finishing with tonal noise.

On Experience with the Implementation of IEC 61400-11 (Edition 3) run by Sylvia Broneske.
After that a whisky tasting.

After a plenary opening on the aeroacoustic noise generation by Franck Bertagnolio of DTU we move into our only split sessions. The broad general themes are source noise in Hall 1 and receiver noise in Hall 2. If you are interested in how to do a slick presentation don’t miss Carlos Arce’s presentation at 9am in Hall 1 – if his performance at Malmo is going to be repeated. Meanwhile in Hall 2 we have a number of interesting proposals for monitoring noise and for separating turbine noise from background noise, followed by a session on infrasound and the second session on regulations.

Deals exclusively with Amplitude Modulation opening with a plenary paper by Helge Madsen of DTU to set the scene.
The rest of the day will provide a wide variety of explanations and analyses of AM from ground effects to a paper by Cheong, Stalnov and Joseph that’s not on the programme about Cyclostationary Analysis.