Preface

The tenth Wake Conference , held between 10 th and 12 nd of June 2025, marks nearly two decades of successful international conferences focused on advancements in the field of wake dynamics. This biannual conference, held primarily on the Baltic Sea Island of Gotland, Sweden, seeks to facilitate this by providing an opportunity where scientists and PhD students working in the field of wake dynamics can come together and share their research and expertise. To understand the need for this conference one only needs to look to modern wind farms. These sprawling energy facilities have come to rival the production of a nuclear power plant and consist of dozens or potentially hundreds of individual wind turbines. The sheer numbers of turbines involved make it unavoidable that they will be impacted by the wakes of upstream turbines. These wake interactions result in decreased power production, caused by the lower kinetic energy in the wind, and an increase in the turbulence intensity. This decrease in power underscores the importance of understanding the physical nature of vortices and their dynamics in the wake of a turbine when designing the layout of these immense wind farms. The clear importance of farm design, and the related interest in the field of wake and wind farm aerodynamics, can be seen in the growing number of scientific articles on the subject. Further, in order to have a meaningful impact on one of the most significant challenges of our time - global climate change - the wind industry’s growth must continue. A part of making this growth possible, and to solve some of the scientific problems of doing so, will require research into the different areas of the physics of wind turbine and wind farm wakes. To this end, this conference covers the following subject areas: Wake and vortex dynamics, instabilities in trailing vortices and wakes, simulation and measurements of wakes, analytical approaches for modeling wakes, wake interaction along with other wind farm investigations. List of The Organizers and Editorial Committee are available in this PDF.