Establishing a fully coupled CFD analysis tool for floating offshore wind turbines

Yuanchuan Liu, Qing Xiao, Atilla Incecik, Christophe Peyrard and Decheng Wan

Renewable Energy, 2017, vol. 112, issue C, 280-301

Abstract: An accurate study of a floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) system requires interdisciplinary knowledge about wind turbine aerodynamics, floating platform hydrodynamics and mooring line dynamics, as well as interaction between these discipline areas. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) provides a new means of analysing a fully coupled fluid-structure interaction (FSI) system in a detailed manner. In this paper, a numerical tool based on the open source CFD toolbox OpenFOAM for application to FOWTs will be described. Various benchmark cases are first modelled to demonstrate the capability of the tool. The OC4 DeepCWind semi-submersible FOWT model is then investigated under different operating conditions.

Keywords: Floating offshore wind turbine; Computational fluid dynamics; Fluid-structure interaction; OpenFOAM; Sliding mesh technique (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2017.04.052

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