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 …

Limit hypersurface state of the art Gaidai multivariate risk evaluation approach for offshore Jacket

O Gaidai, Y Cao, Y Zhu, F Zhang, Z Liu… - … Based Design of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Current study presents state of the art approach to risk and reliability assessment for
multivariate nonlinear dynamic systems. Specifically, novel hypersurface Gaidai risks …

Multidisciplinary design optimization of offshore wind turbines for minimum levelized cost of energy

T Ashuri, MB Zaaijer, JRRA Martins, GJW Van Bussel… - Renewable energy, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper presents a method for multidisciplinary design optimization of offshore wind
turbines at system level. The formulation and implementation that enable the integrated …

Assessing focused wave applicability on a coupled aero-hydro-mooring FOWT system using CFD approach

Y Zhou, Q **ao, C Peyrard, G Pan - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
The present study examines the wave type and wave steepness impacts onto the floating
offshore wind turbine (FOWT) hydro/aerodynamics. With the aid of using a high-fidelity aero …

Simplified critical mudline bending moment spectra of offshore wind turbine support structures

L Arany, S Bhattacharya, J Macdonald… - Wind Energy, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Offshore wind turbines are subjected to multiple dynamic loads arising from the wind, waves,
rotational frequency (1P) and blade passing frequency (3P) loads. In the literature, these …

Aeroservoelastic design definition of a 20 MW common research wind turbine model

T Ashuri, JRRA Martins, MB Zaaijer… - Wind …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Wind turbine upscaling is motivated by the fact that larger machines can achieve lower
levelized cost of energy. However, there are several fundamental issues with the design of …

Offshore wind turbine fatigue loads: The influence of alternative wave modeling for different turbulent and mean winds

E Marino, A Giusti, L Manuel - Renewable Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
The coupled hydro-aero-elastic response and fatigue loads of a bottom-supported offshore
wind turbine under different wind conditions and for different wave modeling assumptions is …

Fatigue load estimation of a spar-type floating offshore wind turbine considering wave-current interactions

L Chen, B Basu - International Journal of Fatigue, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper considers the effects of current and wave-current interactions in fatigue analysis
of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs). Surface water waves experience frequency shifts …

Simplified fatigue load assessment in offshore wind turbine structural analysis

D Zwick, M Muskulus - Wind Energy, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The estimation of fatigue lifetime for an offshore wind turbine support structure requires a
large number of time‐domain simulations. It is an important question whether it is possible to …