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Editor-in-chief: Carlo L. Bottasso

Chief editors: Sandrine Aubrun, Nicolaos A. Cutululis, Paul Fleming, Julia Gottschall, Athanasios Kolios, Jakob Mann & Paul Veers

eISSN: WES 2366-7451, WESD 2366-7621

Wind Energy Science is an international scientific journal dedicated to the publication and public discussion of studies that take an interdisciplinary perspective of fundamental or pioneering research in wind energy.

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Follow the discussions on newly posted manuscripts and take part by commenting on WES preprints! Wind Energy Science has an innovative two-stage publication process involving the scientific discussion forum Wind Energy Science Discussions (WESD), which has been designed to maximize the effectiveness and transparency of scientific quality assurance and foster scientific discourse.

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30 Jun 2026 The Norwegian University of Science and Technology partners with Copernicus Publications to support open-access publishing

Copernicus Publications has signed a new institutional agreement with Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Please read more.

30 Jun 2026 The Norwegian University of Science and Technology partners with Copernicus Publications to support open-access publishing

Copernicus Publications has signed a new institutional agreement with Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Please read more.

13 Feb 2026 University of Western Ontario partners with Copernicus Publications to support open-access publishing

Copernicus Publications has signed a new agreement with Western Libraries at the University of Western Ontario, providing a 50% APC reduction for eligible corresponding authors submitting from 1 January 2026. Please read more.

13 Feb 2026 University of Western Ontario partners with Copernicus Publications to support open-access publishing

Copernicus Publications has signed a new agreement with Western Libraries at the University of Western Ontario, providing a 50% APC reduction for eligible corresponding authors submitting from 1 January 2026. Please read more.

09 Feb 2026 Wind Energy Science turns 10!

We are proud to announce the publication of a special editorial celebrating the first decade of Wind Energy Science. This milestone is a tribute to the vibrant community of authors, reviewers, editors, and readers who have shaped the journal into a leading platform for open, rigorous wind energy research. Read the 10th anniversary editorial.

09 Feb 2026 Wind Energy Science turns 10!

We are proud to announce the publication of a special editorial celebrating the first decade of Wind Energy Science. This milestone is a tribute to the vibrant community of authors, reviewers, editors, and readers who have shaped the journal into a leading platform for open, rigorous wind energy research. Read the 10th anniversary editorial.

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Recent papers

24 Sep 2026

Economic and design optimization of a 15 MW floating offshore wind platform using time series forecasting

Craig White, Victor Benifla, José Cândido, and Luís M. C. Gato

Wind Energ. Sci., 11, 3703–3717, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-11-3703-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-11-3703-2026, 2026

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24 Sep 2026

SANDWake3D: a 3D parabolic RANS solver for atmospheric surface layers and turbine wakes

Lawrence Cheung, Prakash Mohan, Marc T. Henry de Frahan, Gopal R. Yalla, Alan Hsieh, Kenneth Brown, Nathaniel deVelder, Sam Kaufman-Martin, Marc Day, and Michael Sprague

Wind Energ. Sci., 11, 3719–3743, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-11-3719-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-11-3719-2026, 2026

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23 Sep 2026

Wind tunnel study of yawed porous discs subjected to veered inflow

Shantanu Purohit, Haoyuan Sun, Andrea Sciacchitano, and Wei Yu

Wind Energ. Sci., 11, 3671–3701, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-11-3671-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-11-3671-2026, 2026

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23 Sep 2026

Brief communication: Enhanced wind turbine fatigue load estimation using digital shadows with data-driven bias correction

Hadi Hoghooghi and Carlo L. Bottasso

Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2026-156,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2026-156, 2026

Preprint under review for WES (discussion: open, 0 comments)

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22 Sep 2026

Lifetime reassessment of offshore wind turbines considering different operating conditions using Kriging meta-models

Franziska Schmidt, Clemens Hübler, and Raimund Rolfes

Wind Energ. Sci., 11, 3653–3670, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-11-3653-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-11-3653-2026, 2026

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