Use of Kane’s Method for Multi-Body Dynamic Modelling and Control of Spar-Type Floating Offshore Wind Turbines

Saptarshi Sarkar and Breiffni Fitzgerald
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Saptarshi Sarkar: Department of Mechanics and Maritime Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden
Breiffni Fitzgerald: School of Engineering, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 20, 1-43

Abstract: This paper demonstrates the use of Kane’s method to derive equations of motion for a spar-type floating offshore wind turbine taking into account the flexibility of the members. The recently emerged Kane’s method reduces the effort required to derive equations of motion for complex multi-body systems, making them simpler to model and more readily solved by computers. Further, the installation procedure of external vibration control devices on the wind turbine using Kane’s method is described, and the ease of using this method has been demonstrated. A tuned mass damper inerter (TMDI) is installed in the tower for illustration. The excellent vibration mitigation properties of the TMDI are also presented in this paper.

Keywords: flexible multi-body dynamics; Kane’s method; floating offshore wind turbines; control; tuned mass damper inerter (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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