Abstract

A two MW floating offshore wind turbine is developed within the EU-FP7 project FLOATGEN. The focus of this paper is to perform design studies of the mooring foundation at the hull and to investigate the full scale floater concept in a coupled MBS-CFD environment at regular waves. Measurements from wave tank model tests are used for validation. The results show the potential of CFD methods to be used as virtual test bed during the design process.

Details

Title
Design study and full scale MBS-CFD simulation of the IDEOL floating offshore wind turbine foundation
Author
Borisade, F 1 ; Choisnet, T 2 ; Cheng, P W 1 

 University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart Wind Energy (SWE), Allmandring 5b, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany 
 IDEOL, Bât B, Espace Mistral, 375 Avenue du Mistral, 13600 La Ciotat, France 
Publication year
2016
Publication date
Sep 2016
Publisher
IOP Publishing
ISSN
17426588
e-ISSN
17426596
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2575229227
Copyright
© 2016. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.