The Wind Engineering and Renewable Energy Laboratory (WiRE) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 
Lausanne (EPFL) searches a postdoctoral researcher for a project recently funded by the Swiss National 
Science Foundation. The project aims at investigating the interaction between wind farms and the 
atmospheric boundary layer using a combination of field experiments, wind tunnel experiments and numerical 
simulations.

The main activities to be carried out as part of the aforementioned project include:

1) Extend our GPU accelerated in-house LES code to include thermal effects.

1) Studying wind turbine wake flows and their superposition inside wind farms.

2) Investigating the effect of atmospheric stability (thermal) conditions on wind turbine wakes, power output 
and fatigue loads.

The candidates should hold a PhD in engineering, physics or atmospheric science and have experience with 
LES of wind turbine/farm flows.

Salary level is highly competitive (more than 95 k$/year; exact level depends on experience).