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Enabling Floating Offshore VAWT Design by Coupling OWENS and OpenFAST
Energies, 2023 Vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs) have a long history, with a wide variety of turbine archetypes that have been designed and tested since the 1970s.
Michael C. Devin +5 more
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南方能源建设, 2021 [Introduction] In order to find an economic and effective solution to the improvement of the hydrodynamic performance of floating offshore wind turbines, this paper studies the design scheme of heave plates to improve the hydrodynamic damping performance
CHEN Jiahao +5 more
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A computational assessment of the aerodynamic performance of a tilted Darrieus wind turbine [PDF]
, 2015 The aerodynamic performance of a Darrieus wind turbine operating with the rotation axis tilted with respect to the free-stream wind speed is investigated in this paper. An Unsteady Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (URANS) Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Bedon, Gabriele +2 more
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Journal of Marine Science and EngineeringThe installation and operation phases are critical stages in the lifecycle of offshore wind turbines, with costs associated with the installation and maintenance of floating wind turbines accounting for approximately 50% of the total investment.
Mingfeng Hu +5 more
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Applied Sciences, 2019 Floating offshore wind turbines are complex dynamical systems. The use of numerical models is an essential tool for the prediction of the fatigue life, ultimate loads and controller design.
Kasper Jessen +4 more
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Progress on the experimental set-up for the testing of a floating offshore wind turbine scaled model in a field site [PDF]
, 2016 This document describes design and realization of a small-scale field experiment on a 1:30 model of spar floating support structure for offshore wind turbines. The aim of the experiment is to investigate the dynamic behaviour of the floating wind turbine
Arena, Felice +5 more
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Applied Sciences, 2019 DeepCwind semi-submersible floating offshore wind turbines have been widely examined, and in some countries this type of floating offshore wind turbine has been adopted in the construction of floating wind farms.
Zhenqing Liu +3 more
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A Stochastic Petri Net Model for O&M Planning of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines
Energies, 2021 With increasing deployment of offshore wind farms further from shore and in deeper waters, the efficient and effective planning of operation and maintenance (O&M) activities has received considerable attention from wind energy developers and operators in
Tobi Elusakin +3 more
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Operational modal analysis of a spar-type floating platform using frequency domain decomposition method [PDF]
, 2016 System identification of offshore floating platforms is usually performed by testing small-scale models in wave tanks, where controlled conditions, such as still water for free decay tests, regular and irregular wave loading can be represented.
Arena, Felice +5 more
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Validation of Danish wind time series from a new global renewable energy atlas for energy system analysis [PDF]
, 2015 We present a new high-resolution global renewable energy atlas ({REatlas}) that can be used to calculate customised hourly time series of wind and solar PV power generation.
Andresen, Gorm Bruun +2 more
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