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Development of a fully coupled aero-hydro-mooring-elastic tool for floating offshore wind turbines

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A floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) is a coupled system where a wind turbine with flexible blades interacts with a moored platform in wind and waves. This paper presents a high-fidelity aero-hydro-mooring-elastic analysis tool developed for FOWT applications. A fully coupled analysis is carried out for an OC4 semi-submersible FOWT under a combined wind/wave condition. Responses of the FOWT are investigated in terms of platform hydrodynamics, mooring dynamics, wind turbine aerodynamics and blade structural dynamics. Interactions between the FOWT and fluid flow are also analysed by visualising results obtained via the CFD approach. Through this work, the capabilities of the tool developed are demonstrated and impacts of different parts of the system on each other are investigated.

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Acknowledgements

The first author would like to acknowledge Mr Christophe Peyrard from Électricité de France (EDF) for generously providing insightful suggestions and comments to this work and for kindly offering access to the Athos HPC facility in EDF. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. U1806229).

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Biography: Yuanchuan Liu (1990-), Male, Ph. D.

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Liu, Y., Xiao, Q. Development of a fully coupled aero-hydro-mooring-elastic tool for floating offshore wind turbines. J Hydrodyn 31, 21–33 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42241-019-0012-6

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