Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University ›› 2014, Vol. 48 ›› Issue (04): 570-575.

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Coupling Hydrodynamic and Aerodynamic Computations of Offshore Floating Wind Turbines

YAN Fasuo1,ZHANG Chengxiang1,YANG Hui1,PENG Cheng2
  

  1. (1.College of Shipbuilding Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China;2.Zachary Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A & M University, College Station 77843, USA)
  • Received:2013-08-19

Abstract:

The method to perform coupling analysis of offshore floating wind turbines (OFWT) was developted by integrating hydrodynamic and aerodynamic modules in time domain. The Morison method was used for hydrodynamic computation of floating body and its mooring system, in which the relative velocity between structure elements and waves was implemented by the hybrid wave model with second order accuracy. Slender rods theories were applied to the mooring systems, and the wind turbine was modeled by the aero-elastic code-FAST. Loads and displacements were transferred between the submodules based mainly on floating body control equations in every time step by the Newmark- β method. Motion responses of a 5 MW 3 blades spar type OFWT was predicted with and without FAST to validate the combined program. A comparison of results from the available 3D linear potential flow method in a random sea condition shows that the code is capable of hydro-aero dynamic analysis of OFWT.
 

Key words: offshore floating wind turbine, dynamic responses, hydro-aerodynamic computation, coupling analysis

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