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 …

Review of model experimental methods focusing on aerodynamic simulation of floating offshore wind turbines

C Chen, Y Ma, T Fan - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Model experiments to investigate floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) must
account for the aerodynamic loads on the wind turbines, hydrodynamic loads on the …

Experimental and numerical analysis of a TLP floating offshore wind turbine

E Oguz, D Clelland, AH Day, A Incecik, JA López… - Ocean …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
This paper describes an experimental and numerical investigation of the Iberdrola TLP wind
turbine concept, TLPWIND, in realistic wind and wave conditions. The TLP was coupled to …

Review of experimental-numerical methodologies and challenges for floating offshore wind turbines

P Chen, J Chen, Z Hu - Journal of Marine Science and Application, 2020‏ - Springer
Due to the dissimilar scaling issues, the conventional experimental method of FOWTs can
hardly be used directly to validate the full-scale global dynamic responses accurately …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Comparative numerical and experimental study of two combined wind and wave energy concepts

Z Gao, T Moan, L Wan, C Michailides - Journal of Ocean Engineering and …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
With a successful and rapid development of offshore wind industry and increased research
activities on wave energy conversion in recent years, there is an interest in investigating the …

Dynamic responses of a 10 MW semi-submersible wind turbine at an intermediate water depth: A comprehensive numerical and experimental comparison

Q Cao, L **ao, Z Cheng, M Liu - Ocean Engineering, 2021‏ - Elsevier
A series of experiments and numerical simulations were conducted to investigate the
dynamic responses of a 10 MW floating wind turbine concept named SPIC, at an …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical modelling of dynamic responses of a floating offshore wind turbine subject to focused waves

Y Zhou, Q **ao, Y Liu, A Incecik, C Peyrard, S Li, G Pan - Energies, 2019‏ - mdpi.com
In this paper, we present numerical modelling for the investigation of dynamic responses of
a floating offshore wind turbine subject to focused waves. The modelling was carried out …

A CFD study of coupled aerodynamic‐hydrodynamic loads on a semisubmersible floating offshore wind turbine

TT Tran, DH Kim - Wind Energy, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
The prediction of dynamic characteristics for a floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) is
challenging because of the complex load coupling of aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, and …

Experimental study of the functionality of a semisubmersible wind turbine combined with flap-type Wave Energy Converters

C Michailides, Z Gao, T Moan - Renewable Energy, 2016‏ - Elsevier
In the present paper the functionality of the Semisubmersible wind energy and Flap-type
wave energy Converter (SFC) is examined experimentally. In order to study the functionality …