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Title: Wind/Wave Misalignment in the Loads Analysis of a Floating Offshore Wind Turbine: Preprint

Abstract

Wind resources far from the shore and in deeper seas have encouraged the offshore wind industry to look into floating platforms. The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) is developing a new technical specification for the design of floating offshore wind turbines that extends existing design standards for land-based and fixed-bottom offshore wind turbines. The work summarized in this paper supports the development of best practices and simulation requirements in the loads analysis of floating offshore wind turbines by examining the impact of wind/wave misalignment on the system loads under normal operation. Simulations of the OC3-Hywind floating offshore wind turbine system under a wide range of wind speeds, significant wave heights, peak-spectral periods and wind/wave misalignments have been carried out with the aero-servo-hydro-elastic tool FAST [4]. The extreme and fatigue loads have been calculated for all the simulations. The extreme and fatigue loading as a function of wind/wave misalignment have been represented as load roses and a directional binning sensitivity study has been carried out. This study focused on identifying the number and type of wind/wave misalignment simulations needed to accurately capture the extreme and fatigue loads of the system in all possible metocean conditions considered, and for a down-selected set identifiedmore » as the generic US East Coast site. For this axisymmetric platform, perpendicular wind and waves play an important role in the support structure and including these cases in the design loads analysis can improve the estimation of extreme and fatigue loads. However, most structural locations see their highest extreme and fatigue loads with aligned wind and waves. These results are specific to the spar type platform, but it is expected that the results presented here will be similar to other floating platforms.« less

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Research Org.:
National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
OSTI Identifier:
1126291
Report Number(s):
NREL/CP-5000-61043
DOE Contract Number:  
AC36-08GO28308
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: Presented at AIAA SciTech 2014, 13-17 January 2014, National Harbor, Maryland
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
17 WIND ENERGY; FLOATING WIND; DESIGN STANDARDS; WIND/WAVE MISALIGNMENT; NREL; Wind Energy

Citation Formats

Barj, L., Stewart, S., Stewart, G., Lackner, M., Jonkman, J., and Robertson, A. Wind/Wave Misalignment in the Loads Analysis of a Floating Offshore Wind Turbine: Preprint. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.2514/6.2014-0363.
Barj, L., Stewart, S., Stewart, G., Lackner, M., Jonkman, J., & Robertson, A. Wind/Wave Misalignment in the Loads Analysis of a Floating Offshore Wind Turbine: Preprint. United States. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2014-0363
Barj, L., Stewart, S., Stewart, G., Lackner, M., Jonkman, J., and Robertson, A. 2014. "Wind/Wave Misalignment in the Loads Analysis of a Floating Offshore Wind Turbine: Preprint". United States. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2014-0363. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1126291.
@article{osti_1126291,
title = {Wind/Wave Misalignment in the Loads Analysis of a Floating Offshore Wind Turbine: Preprint},
author = {Barj, L. and Stewart, S. and Stewart, G. and Lackner, M. and Jonkman, J. and Robertson, A.},
abstractNote = {Wind resources far from the shore and in deeper seas have encouraged the offshore wind industry to look into floating platforms. The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) is developing a new technical specification for the design of floating offshore wind turbines that extends existing design standards for land-based and fixed-bottom offshore wind turbines. The work summarized in this paper supports the development of best practices and simulation requirements in the loads analysis of floating offshore wind turbines by examining the impact of wind/wave misalignment on the system loads under normal operation. Simulations of the OC3-Hywind floating offshore wind turbine system under a wide range of wind speeds, significant wave heights, peak-spectral periods and wind/wave misalignments have been carried out with the aero-servo-hydro-elastic tool FAST [4]. The extreme and fatigue loads have been calculated for all the simulations. The extreme and fatigue loading as a function of wind/wave misalignment have been represented as load roses and a directional binning sensitivity study has been carried out. This study focused on identifying the number and type of wind/wave misalignment simulations needed to accurately capture the extreme and fatigue loads of the system in all possible metocean conditions considered, and for a down-selected set identified as the generic US East Coast site. For this axisymmetric platform, perpendicular wind and waves play an important role in the support structure and including these cases in the design loads analysis can improve the estimation of extreme and fatigue loads. However, most structural locations see their highest extreme and fatigue loads with aligned wind and waves. These results are specific to the spar type platform, but it is expected that the results presented here will be similar to other floating platforms.},
doi = {10.2514/6.2014-0363},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1126291}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2014},
month = {Sat Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2014}
}

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