Impact of Rotor Misalignment Due to Platform Motions on Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Blade Loads
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from ASME via the DOI in this record The rotor of a horizontal-axis floating offshore wind turbine is more frequently misaligned with the oncoming wind than that of a fixed offshore or onshore wind turbine due to the pitch and ya...
| Published in: | Volume 10: Ocean Renewable Energy |
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| Main Authors: | , , , , |
| Format: | Conference Object |
| Language: | English |
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American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
2019
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/36118 https://doi.org/10.1115/OMAE2019-95759 |
| Summary: | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from ASME via the DOI in this record The rotor of a horizontal-axis floating offshore wind turbine is more frequently misaligned with the oncoming wind than that of a fixed offshore or onshore wind turbine due to the pitch and yaw motions of the floating support structure. This can lead to increased unsteady loading and fatigue on the components beyond those considered in the standard load cases. In this work, the Simulator for On/Offshore Wind Farm Applications (SOWFA) tool within the CFD toolbox OpenFOAM is used to perform simulations of a wind turbine at different stationary angles to the oncoming wind flow that a floating wind turbine may experience, so that the impact of misaligned flow on power production and blade loading can be studied. The turbine is modelled using an actuator line method which is coupled with NREL’s aeroelastic code FAST to compute the structural response. The results of this study will be used in future work to optimise the rotor geometry of a floating offshore wind turbine. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
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