This paper reviews experimental methods for testing floating wind turbines. The techniques
covered include early-stage and up-to-date approaches such as a porous disc method and …

We investigate the aerodynamics of a surging, heaving, and yawing wind turbine with
numerical simulations based on a free-wake panel method. We focus on the UNAFLOW …

This study reports the results of the second round of analyses of the OC6 project Phase III.
While the first round investigated rotor aerodynamic loading, here focus is given to the wake …

An accurate prediction of the unsteady loads acting on floating offshore wind turbines
(FOWTs) under consideration of wave excitation is crucial for a resource-efficient turbine …

Waves have the potential to increase the power output of a floating wind turbine forcing the
rotor to move against wind. Starting from this observation, we use four multi-physics models …

Accurate modeling and design tools are required to lower the cost of floating wind and
enable the rapid growth that is expected in the next years. This paper presents a hardware …

The rotor of a floating wind turbine is subject to complex aerodynamics due to changes in
relative wind speeds at the blades and potential local interactions between blade sections …

This study presents results from a wind tunnel experiment on a three-bladed horizontal axis
wind turbine. The model turbine is a scaled-down version of the IEA 15 MW reference wind …

In this paper we report about the design and validation of a 1.2 m wind turbine rotor with
fixed blade pitch. The wind turbine is a scaled version of the DTU 10 MW. Integrated design …

The growing interest in floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) is rooted in the potential
source of increased offshore energy production. As the technology is still in a pre-industrial …