Tidal barrage power plants utilise the tidal range variation to generate clean electricity.
Although there are several operating tidal barrage schemes around the globe, there is still …

Aerodynamic damping of floating wind turbines (FWTs) plays a dominant role in suppressing
the vibration of the tower and blades and the platform motions. Although much effort has …

Sequential design optimization is frequently used to design floating offshore wind turbines.
This method simplifies the design problem by implementing each of the disciplines …

Floating offshore wind turbines extract rich and stable wind energy in the deep sea.
However, they face severe sea conditions and high maintenance costs, and a promising …

The coupled dynamic analysis is performed for three different types of offshore floating
platforms combined with a wave energy converter (WEC) mounting a 5-MW NREL (National …

Extraordinary properties emerge from subsystems' interactions. Hybrid energy systems
(HESs) are a promising concept that could change the renewable energy landscape. By co …

Control co-design (CCD) explores physical and control design spaces simultaneously to
optimize a system's performance. A commonly used CCD framework aims to achieve open …

This article discusses the development of an optimal variable-pitch controller for floating,
axial-flow marine turbines. Recently, OpenFAST, an open-source wind turbine modeling …

Abstract Models that balance accuracy against computational costs are advantageous when
designing dynamic systems with optimization studies, as several hundred predictive function …

There is a lack of suitable numerical tools, particularly open-source tools, that can be used
for designing and optimizing marine turbine systems. The National Renewable Energy …