Professor Christopher Vogel
About
Professor Christopher Vogel is an Associate Professor and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow in the Department of Engineering Science specialising in low-speed fluid mechanics. His research interests focus on offshore renewable energy, in particular wind energy and tidal stream energy, and the integration of these renewable energy sources into the wider electricity system.
Professor Vogel leads a research group that uses a range of analytical modelling, numerical simulations, lab-scale experiments and data science to investigate problems spanning rotor-scale aerodynamics, to turbine wake evolution, to the aerodynamics of large farms of turbines and interactions with the wind energy resource. The group also apply similar methods to analyse the more nascent area of tidal stream energy.
Expertise
- Offshore renewable energy
- Wind energy
- Tidal stream energy
Selected publications
- Extreme value analysis of wind droughts in Great Britain (Renewable Energy, 2024)
- The Effect of Flow Sampling on the Robustness of the Actuator Line Method (Wind Energy, 2024)
- Control co-design of a large offshore wind farm considering the effect of wind extractability (Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2024)
- Evaluating ERA5 reanalysis predictions of low wind speed events around the UK (Energy Reports, 2023)
- An experimental investigation of the influence of inter-turbine spacing on the loads and performance of a co-planar tidal turbine fence (Journal of Fluids and Structures, 2023)
- Spatial and temporal variability characteristics of offshore wind energy in the United Kingdom (Wind Energy, 2021)
- The Fluid Mechanics of Tidal Stream Energy Conversion (Annual Reviews, 2021)
- Investigation of wind turbine wake superposition models using Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes simulations (Wind Energy, 2019)
Media experience
Professor Christopher Vogel has experience being interviewed for broadcast and print media.
Languages
English