Curriculum Vitae - Gravdahl, Arne Reidar

Personalia and contact

		Name:	Gravdahl, Arne Reidar
		Date of birth:	31.07.60
		Languages:	Norwegian, English, French
		Company:	WindSim AS
		Position:	CEO, Member of the board
		E-mail:	arne@windsim.com
		Skype:	arne_gravdahl
		Phone:	+47 33 38 18 01
		Telefax:	+47 33 38 18 08
		Mobile:	+47 92 03 64 24

Education and experience

	Arne Reidar Gravdahl holds a M.Sc. in Fluid Mechanics from the University of Oslo and a Ph.D in Turbulence modelling from The Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim. During his professional career, starting back in 1987 in the oil and gas industry, he has been working within the area of Computational Fluid Dynamics. He founded VECTOR AS in 1993, and since 1997 his primary working area has been within wind energy. In particular he has been responsible for the technical development of the WindSim software, leading to the establishment of the company WindSim AS in 2005. WindSim is software for simulation of local wind fields. WindSim is used within the wind energy sector for optimizing the energy production from wind farms.
	Arne Reidar Gravdahl was project manager in the project "Norwegian Wind Atlas" financed by The Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate and ENOVA in the period 1998 - 2003. He has headed many micro-siting projects with an emphasis on complex terrain sites.