Functional Requirements for the WEIS Toolset to Enable Controls Co-Design of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines: Preprint

Jason Jonkman, Alan Wright, Garrett Barter, Matthew Hall, James Allison, Daniel Herber

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Abstract

The goal of the new Wind Energy with Integrated Servo-control (WEIS) toolset under development is to provide the offshore wind industry and research communities with an open-source, user-friendly, and flexible tool to enable true Controls Co-Design (CCD) of the physical design of a floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) together with the controller. WEIS will utilize a multifidelity library of models built upon the foundations of WISDEM and OpenFAST (formerly known as FAST). This paper presents the WEIS development plan, including the functional requirements of WEIS (including improvements to WISDEM and OpenFAST) together with associated rationale for their establishment, and a qualitative description of the modeling approaches that will be implemented to address these functional requirements. The development of WEIS is a project under the Aerodynamic Turbines, Lighter and Afloat, with Nautical Technologies and Integrated Servo-control (ATLANTIS) program funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E).
Original languageAmerican English
Number of pages16
StatePublished - 2020
EventASME 2020 3rd International Offshore Wind Technical Conference -
Duration: 16 Feb 202117 Feb 2021

Conference

ConferenceASME 2020 3rd International Offshore Wind Technical Conference
Period16/02/2117/02/21

Bibliographical note

See NREL/CP-5000-80090 for paper as published in proceedings

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/CP-5000-77123

Keywords

  • Controls Co-Design (CCD)
  • floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT)
  • functional requirements
  • OpenFAST
  • WEIS
  • WISDEM

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