TY - GEN
T1 - High-Fidelity Hydrodynamic Simulations of a Slack-Moored Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Platform
AU - Eskilsson, Claes
AU - Verao Fernandez, Gael
AU - Andersen, Jacob
AU - Palm, Johannes
PY - 2024/9
Y1 - 2024/9
N2 - We numerically simulate the hydrodynamic response of a floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) using computational fluid dynamics. The FOWT under consideration is a slack-moored 1:70 scale model of the UMaine VolturnUS-S semi- submersible platform. The test cases under consideration are (i) static equilibrium load cases, (ii) free decay tests, and (iii) two focused wave cases of different wave steepness. The FOWT is modelled using a two-phase Navier-Stokes solver inside the OpenFOAM-v2006 framework. The catenary mooring is computed by dynamically solving the equations of motion for an elastic cable using the MoodyCore solver. The results are shown to be in good agreement with measurements.
AB - We numerically simulate the hydrodynamic response of a floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) using computational fluid dynamics. The FOWT under consideration is a slack-moored 1:70 scale model of the UMaine VolturnUS-S semi- submersible platform. The test cases under consideration are (i) static equilibrium load cases, (ii) free decay tests, and (iii) two focused wave cases of different wave steepness. The FOWT is modelled using a two-phase Navier-Stokes solver inside the OpenFOAM-v2006 framework. The catenary mooring is computed by dynamically solving the equations of motion for an elastic cable using the MoodyCore solver. The results are shown to be in good agreement with measurements.
KW - Floating offshore wind turbine, mooring, computational fluid dynamics.
KW - computational fluid dynamics
KW - Floating offshore wind turbine
KW - mooring
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U2 - 10.17736/ijope.2024.sv15
DO - 10.17736/ijope.2024.sv15
M3 - Conference article in Journal
SN - 1053-5381
VL - 34
SP - 246
EP - 253
JO - International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering
JF - International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering
IS - 3
ER -