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 …

The review of Vortex lattice method for offshore wind turbines

W Huang, R Tang, H Ma - Renewable Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
With the increasing demand for clean and renewable energy, offshore wind turbines are
growing in size and are being positioned closer to deep waters. This trend presents …

Comparative analysis of bent and basic winglets on performance improvement of horizontal axis wind turbines

Z Zhang, L Kuang, Z Han, D Zhou, Y Zhao, Y Bao… - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The winglet has been widely deployed in the optimization of the blade design as it reduces
the tip loss of the blade and increases the swept area of the rotor. However, previous studies …

Numerical investigation of the aerodynamic and wake characteristics of a floating twin-rotor wind turbine under surge motion

Z Zhang, L Kuang, Y Zhao, Z Han, D Zhou, J Tu… - Energy Conversion and …, 2023 - Elsevier
To elevate the power capacity of floating wind turbines and cut costs, development towards
large-scale systems is underway. However, this requires solving the problem of fatigue …

Optimization of blowing jet performance on wind turbine airfoil under dynamic stall conditions using active machine learning and computational intelligence

S Kasmaiee, M Tadjfar, S Kasmaiee - Arabian Journal for Science and …, 2024 - Springer
The dynamic stall is a common phenomenon in horizontal and vertical axis wind, reducing
system efficiency. In order to enhance the aerodynamic performance (L/D) of a NACA0012 …

Characterization of wake interference between two tandem offshore floating vertical-axis wind turbines: Effect of platform pitch motion

L Kuang, Q Lu, X Huang, L Song, Y Chen, J Su… - Energy Conversion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The wake interference within the offshore wind farms, especially with the tandem
arrangement scenario, affects the designed total power output. Also, the six degrees of …

Quantifying the surge-induced response of a floating tidal stream turbine under wave-current flows

Y Zhang, W Wei, J Zheng, B Peng, Y Qian, C Li… - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding the impact of dynamic effects induced by wave-current conditions on the
hydrodynamic performance of a floating horizontal axis tidal turbine (HATT) is crucial toward …

Effects of surge and roll motion on a floating tidal turbine using the actuator-line method

C Li, Y Zhang, Y Zheng, Y Qian, H Hua, S Ren… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
This paper employs a dynamic and sliding mesh in the simulation of both uncoupled and
coupled surge and roll motions of a tidal stream turbine, utilizing a modified actuator-line …

Revealing inflow and wake conditions of a 6MW floating turbine

N Angelou, J Mann… - Wind Energy Science …, 2023 - wes.copernicus.org
We investigate the characteristics of the inflow and the wake of a 6MW floating wind turbine
from the Hywind Scotland offshore wind farm, the world's first floating wind farm. We use two …

Effect of the free-stream turbulence on the bi-modal wake dynamics of square-back bluff body

G Chen, XB Li, K He, Z Cheng, D Zhou, XF Liang - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The effect of a free-stream turbulence intensity level on the wake dynamics of a square-back
Ahmed body is modeled using the improved delayed detached eddy simulation at Re= 9.6× …