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Abstract
Numerical models have been used extensively in the design process of the TetraSpar floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) foundation to optimize and investigate the influence from a number of structural and environmental conditions. In traditional offshore design, either the Morison approach or a linear boundary element method (BEM) is applied to investigate the hydrodynamic loads on a structure. The present study investigated and compared these two methods and evaluated their applicability on the TetraSpar FOWT concept. Furthermore, a hybrid model containing load contributions from both approaches was evaluated. This study focuses on motion response. In the evaluation, hydrodynamic data from BEM codes are applied, while the commercial software package OrcaFlex is utilized for time series simulations of the coupled structure. The investigation highlights the difference between the modelling approaches and the importance of particularly drag and inertia contributions. By optimizing the input coefficients, reasonable agreement between the models can be achieved.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 683 |
Journal | Journal of Marine Science and Engineering |
Volume | 9 |
Issue number | 7 |
Number of pages | 16 |
ISSN | 2077-1312 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 22 Jun 2021 |
Bibliographical note
This article belongs to the Special Issue FOWT–Floating Offshore Wind Turbine: Experimental and Numerical Modelling of Motion Behaviour in Waves, Wind and Current.Keywords
- Floating offshore wind turbines
- Hydrodynamics
- OrcaFlex
- Morison
- Boundary element method
- Numerical simulation
- TetraSpar