Abstract
To better access the abundant offshore wind resource, efforts across the world are being undertaken to develop and improve floating offshore wind turbine technologies. A critical aspect of creating reliable, mature floating wind turbine technology is the development, verification, and validation of efficient computer-aided-engineering (CAE) tools that can be relied upon in the design process. TheNational Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has created a comprehensive, coupled analysis CAE tool for floating wind turbines, FAST, which has been verified and utilized in numerous floating wind turbine studies. Several efforts are currently underway that leverage the extensive 1/50th-scale DeepCwind wind/wave basin model test dataset, obtained at the Maritime Research Institute Netherlands(MARIN) in 2011, to validate the floating platform functionality of FAST to complement its already validated aerodynamic and structural simulation capabilities. In this paper, further work is undertaken to continue this validation. In particular, the ability of FAST to replicate global response behaviors associated with dynamic wind forces, second-order difference-frequency wave-diffractionforces and their interaction with one another are investigated.
Original language | American English |
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Number of pages | 12 |
State | Published - 2013 |
Event | 32nd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE2013) - Nantes, France Duration: 9 Jun 2013 → 14 Jun 2013 |
Conference
Conference | 32nd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE2013) |
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City | Nantes, France |
Period | 9/06/13 → 14/06/13 |
NREL Publication Number
- NREL/CP-5000-57697
Keywords
- fast
- floating wind turbines
- NREL
- offshore wind
- semisubmersible