Verification of a Numerical Model of the Offshore Wind Turbine From the Alpha Ventus Wind Farm Within OC5 Phase III

Conference · Sun Jun 17 00:00:00 EDT 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1115/OMAE2018-77589· OSTI ID:1482881

Robertson, Amy N ^[1]; Jonkman, Jason  ^[1]; Wendt, Fabian F ^[1]; Popko, Wojciech ^[2]; Huhn, Matthias L. ^[2]; Muller, Kolja ^[3]; Kretschmer, Matthias ^[3]; Vorpahl, Fabian ^[4]; Hagen, Torbjorn Ruud ^[5]; Galinos, Christos ^[6]; Le Dreff, Jean-Baptiste ^[7]; Gilbert, Philippe ^[8]; Auriac, Bertrand ^[9]; Villora, Francisco Navarro ^[10]; Schunemann, Paul ^[11]; Bayati, Ilmas ^[12]; Belloli, Marco ^[12]; Oh, Sho ^[13]; Totsuka, Yoshitaka ^[14]; Qvist, Jacob ^[15] ; Bachynski, Erin ^[16]; Sorum, Stian Hoegh ^[16]; Thomassen, Paul E. ^[17]; Shin, Hyunkyoung ^[18]; Vittori, Felipe ^[19]; Galvan, Josean ^[20]; Molins, Climent ^[21]; Bonnet, Paul ^[22]; van der Zee, Tjeerd ^[23]; Bergua, Roger ^[24]; Wang, Kai ^[24]; Fu, Pengcheng ^[25]; Cai, Jifeng ^[25]

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1. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
2. Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems IWES
3. University of Stuttgart
4. Senvion
5. OWEC Tower AS
6. Technical University of Denmark
7. Electricite de France
8. IFP Energies Nouvelles
9. Principia
10. Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy
11. University of Rostock
12. Politecnico di Milano
13. Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK)
14. Wind Energy Institute of Tokyo Inc.
15. 4Subsea
16. Norwegian University of Science and Technology
17. Simis AS
18. University of Ulsan
19. National Renewable Energy Centre (CENER)
20. TECNALIA
21. Polytechnic University of Catalonia
22. Siemens Industry Software
23. Knowledge Centre WMC
24. Envision Energy Limited
25. China General Certification Center

The main objective of the Offshore Code Comparison Collaboration Continuation, with Correlation (OC5) project, is validation of aero-hydro-servo-elastic simulation tools for offshore wind turbines (OWTs) through comparison of simulated results to the response data of physical systems. Phase III of the OC5 project analyzes the Senvion 5M wind turbine supported by the OWEC Quattropod from the alpha ventus offshore wind farm. This paper shows results of the verification of the OWT models (code-to-code comparison). A subsequent publication will focus on their validation (comparison of simulated results to measured physical system response data). Based on the available data, the participants of Phase III set up numerical models of the OWT in their simulation tools. It was necessary to verify and to tune these models. The verification and tuning were performed against an OWT model available at the University of Stuttgart - Stuttgart Wind Energy (SWE) and documentation provided by Senvion and OWEC Tower. A very good match was achieved between the results from the reference SWE model and models set up by OC5 Phase III participants.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Wind and Water Technologies Office (EE-4W)
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1482881
• Report Number(s): NREL/CP-5000-72830
• Resource Relation: Conference: Presented at the ASME 2018 37th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, 17-22 June 2018, Madrid, Spain
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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17 WIND ENERGY
offshore wind energy
offshore wind turbines
Offshore Code Comparison Collaboration Continuation
correlation
OC5