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Kelin Wang, Oleg Gaidai, Fang Wang, Xiaosen Xu, Tao Zhang and Hang Deng
The development of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) is gradually moving into deeper offshore areas with more harsh environmental loads, and the corresponding structure response should be paid attention to. Safety assessments need to be conducted b...
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Brendan Saunders and Ryozo Nagamune
Floating offshore wind farm control via real-time turbine repositioning has a potential in significantly enhancing the wind farm efficiency. Although the wind farm power capture increase by moving platforms with aerodynamic force has been verified in a r...
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Yoon-Jin Ha, Kyong-Hwan Kim and Ji-Yong Park
In this study, a numerical simulation was conducted to investigate the non-linear physical phenomena of a tension leg platform (TLP) of a 15-MW-class floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT). Computational fluid dynamics was employed as the numerical tool, ...
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Mikel Serrano-Antoñanazas, Jesús-Enrique Sierra-Garcia, Matilde Santos and María Tomas-Rodríguez
Compared to onshore turbines, floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) take advantage of the increased availability of offshore wind while causing less environmental impact. However, the strong winds, waves, and currents to which they are subjected trigge...
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Sungjun Park and Joonmo Choung
Fully coupled integrated load analyses (ILAs) to evaluate not only the load response but also the structural integrity are required to design a floating offshore wind turbine, since there has been no firmly established approach for obtaining the structur...
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Decao Yin, Elizabeth Passano, Fengjian Jiang, Halvor Lie, Jie Wu, Naiquan Ye, Svein Sævik and Bernt J. Leira
The motivation for this study is the fast development of floating offshore wind energy and the immature methodology and engineering practice related to predictions of vortex-induced motions (VIM). Benefiting from the oil and gas industry, in the past sev...
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Yiming Zhou, Yajun Ren, Wei Shi and Xin Li
Tension leg platform (TLP) is a cost-effective and high-performance support structure for floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) because of its small responses in heave, pitch, and roll with the constraint of the tendons. China, as the largest market of o...
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Lei Xue, Jundong Wang, Liye Zhao, Zhiwen Wei, Mingqi Yu and Yu Xue
Wake effects commonly exist in offshore wind farms, which will cause a 10?20% reduction of whole power production as well as a 5?15% increase of fatigue loading on the wind turbine main structures. Obviously wake interaction between floating offshore win...
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Yuting Zhai, Haisheng Zhao, Xin Li and Wei Shi
In this study, a novel large-scale barge-type floating offshore wind turbine with an aquaculture cage (LSBT-FOWT-AC) in a water depth of 100 m is designed through fully coupled analysis using the SESAM tool to support the Technical University of Denmark ...
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Taisuke Takata, Mayuko Takaoka, Rodolfo T. Gonçalves, Hidetaka Houtani, Yasuo Yoshimura, Kentaro Hara, Sho Oh, Raúl Dotta, Edgard B. Malta, Kazuhiro Iijima and Hideyuki Suzuki
A tank experiment using a flexible multi-column floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) model in regular waves was carried out to clarify the floater elastic response and its influence on the floater motion. The model motion response from the experiment wa...
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