A review of modelling techniques for floating offshore wind turbines

A Otter, J Murphy, V Pakrashi, A Robertson… - Wind …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Modelling floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) is challenging due to the strong coupling
between the aerodynamics of the turbine and the hydrodynamics of the floating platform …

A review of high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics for floating offshore wind turbines

S Xu, Y Xue, W Zhao, D Wan - Journal of Marine Science and …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The design and development of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) is an attractive
issue in the wind energy harvesting field. In this study, the research related to the high …

Monopiles in offshore wind: Preliminary estimate of main dimensions

V Negro, JS López-Gutiérrez, MD Esteban, P Alberdi… - Ocean …, 2017 - Elsevier
Offshore wind industry is having a great development. It requires progress in many aspects
to achieve the sustainable progress of this technology. One of those aspects is the design of …

Coupled loads analysis of a novel shared-mooring floating wind farm

E Lozon, M Hall - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Shared mooring lines are a method to reduce the stationkeeping cost of floating offshore
wind farms; however, their impacts on floating array dynamics are not yet well understood …

Numerical coupling strategy using HOS-OpenFOAM-MoorDyn for OC3 Hywind SPAR type platform

S Aliyar, G Ducrozet, B Bouscasse, F Bonnefoy… - Ocean …, 2022 - Elsevier
The coupled (Potential theory and Navier–Stokes) solver is applied to simulate the
interaction of sea waves with substructure of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWT) platform …

Validation and application of a fully nonlinear numerical wave tank for simulating floating offshore wind turbines

N Bruinsma, BT Paulsen, NG Jacobsen - Ocean Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Numerical models are becoming a valid supplement, and even a substitute, to physical
model testing for the investigation of fluid-structure interaction due to improved methods and …

Fully coupled aero-hydrodynamic analysis of a biomimetic fractal semi-submersible floating offshore wind turbine under wind-wave excitation conditions

H Huang, Q Liu, M Yue, W Miao, P Wang, C Li - Renewable Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
With wind energy utilization shifting to the deep sea, floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs)
have huge potential to improve the competitiveness of offshore wind energy generation …

Enhancing active wave absorption in RANS models

P Higuera - Applied Ocean Research, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work we review the most common methods for absorbing waves in Reynolds-
Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) models. The limitations of active wave absorption …

A fully coupled computational fluid dynamics method for analysis of semi-submersible floating offshore wind turbines under wind-wave excitation conditions based on …

Y Zhang, B Kim - Applied sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
Accurate prediction of the time-dependent system dynamic responses of floating offshore
wind turbines (FOWTs) under aero-hydro-coupled conditions is a challenge. This paper …

A robust algorithm for computational floating body dynamics

J Roenby, S Aliyar, H Bredmose - Royal Society Open …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We present a non-iterative algorithm, FloatStepper, for coupling the motion of a rigid body
and an incompressible fluid in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. The purpose …