Floating offshore wind turbines: Current status and future prospects

M Barooni, T Ashuri, D Velioglu Sogut, S Wood… - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Offshore wind energy is a sustainable renewable energy source that is acquired by
harnessing the force of the wind offshore, where the absence of obstructions allows the wind …

[HTML][HTML] Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) applications in Floating Offshore Wind Turbine (FOWT) dynamics: A review

W Zhang, J Calderon-Sanchez, D Duque… - Applied Ocean …, 2024 - Elsevier
This review comprehensively examines advancements in Computational Fluid Dynamics
(CFD) applications within the context of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines (FOWTs). It …

A novel multi-dimensional reliability approach for floating wind turbines under power production conditions

X Xu, Y Xing, O Gaidai, K Wang, KS Patel… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Floating offshore wind turbines (FOWT) generate green renewable energy and are a vital
part of the modern offshore wind energy industry. Robust predicting extreme offshore loads …

Experimental and numerical study of a barge-type FOWT platform under wind and wave load

TC Chuang, WH Yang, RY Yang - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, a floating barge moon pool platform model equipped with an NREL 5 MW wind
turbine and mooring systems was numerically and experimentally tested under wave and …

Hydrodynamic response of a FOWT semi-submersible under regular waves using CFD: Verification and validation

Y Wang, HC Chen, A Koop, G Vaz - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work an extensive verification and validation study is performed to evaluate the
accuracy and credibility for CFD simulations of hydrodynamic response of a Floating …

Verification and validation of CFD simulations for semi-submersible floating offshore wind turbine under pitch free-decay motion

Y Wang, HC Chen, A Koop, G Vaz - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper a detailed verification and validation study is performed to evaluate the
accuracy of CFD simulations for a semi-submersible floating offshore wind turbine in pitch …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying the impact of modeling fidelity on different substructure concepts for floating offshore wind turbines–Part 1: Validation of the hydrodynamic module …

R Behrens de Luna, S Perez-Becker… - Wind Energy …, 2024 - wes.copernicus.org
To realize the projected increase in worldwide demand for floating offshore wind, numerical
simulation tools must capture the relevant physics with a high level of detail while being …

The 1: 20 scaled hydraulic model test and field experiment of barge-type floating offshore wind turbine system

RY Yang, CW Wang, CC Huang, CH Chung… - Ocean …, 2022 - Elsevier
Objective of this study is to develop a barge-type floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) in
order to face extreme environmental conditions in western Taiwan offshore water area. The …

Capability of a potential-flow solver to analyze articulated multibody offshore modules

C Jiang, O el Moctar, TE Schellin - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Within the EU-funded Space@ Sea project, a standardized floating solution for offshore
space was developed, and modularity was one of the key elements. Computational tools …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of difference-frequency wave loads and quadratic transfer functions on a restrained semi-submersible floating wind turbine

H Li, EE Bachynski-Polić - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
One of the concerns regarding numerical simulation of floating wind turbines (FWTs) in
waves is underprediction of resonant responses in the low-frequency range. In the present …