Functional Requirements for the WEIS Toolset to Enable Controls Co-Design of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines: Preprint
The goal of the new Wind Energy with Integrated Servo-control (WEIS) toolset under development is to provide the offshore wind industry and research communities with an open-source, user-friendly, and flexible tool to enable true Controls Co-Design (CCD) of the physical design of a floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) together with the controller. WEIS will utilize a multifidelity library of models built upon the foundations of WISDEM and OpenFAST (formerly known as FAST). This paper presents the WEIS development plan, including the functional requirements of WEIS (including improvements to WISDEM and OpenFAST) together with associated rationale for their establishment, and a qualitative description of the modeling approaches that will be implemented to address these functional requirements. The development of WEIS is a project under the Aerodynamic Turbines, Lighter and Afloat, with Nautical Technologies and Integrated Servo-control (ATLANTIS) program funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E).
- Research Organization:
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC36-08GO28308
- OSTI ID:
- 1677426
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/CP-5000-77123; MainId:26069; UUID:8d7b772e-9c34-44c2-a925-0a48bf67fff7; MainAdminID:18545
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Presented at ASME 2020 3rd International Offshore Wind Technical Conference, 16-17 February 2021
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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