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http://dx.doi.org/10.5139/JKSAS.2018.46.5.368

Aerodynamic Load Analysis of a Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Considering Platform Periodic Motion  

Kim, Youngjin (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Yu, Dong Ok (Agency for Defense Development)
Kwon, Oh Joon (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
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Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences / v.46, no.5, 2018 , pp. 368-375 More about this Journal
Abstract
In the present study, aerodynamic load analysis for a floating off-shore wind turbine was conducted to examine the effect of periodic platform motion in the direction of 6-DOF on rotor aerodynamic performance. Blade-element momentum method(BEM) was used for a numerical simulation, the unsteady airload effects due to the flow separation and the shed wake were considered by adopting a dynamic stall model based on the indicial response method. Rotor induced downwash was estimated using the momentum theory, coupled with empirical corrections for the turbulent wake states. The periodic platform motions including the translational motion in the heave, sway and surge directions and the rotational motion in the roll, pitch and yaw directions were considered, and each platform motion was applied as a sinusoidal function. For the numerical simulation, NREL 5MW reference wind turbine was used as the target wind turbine. The results showed that among the translation modes, the surge motion has the largest influence on changing the rotor airloads, while the effect of pitch motion is predominant for the rotations.
Keywords
Floating Offshore Wind Turbine; Unsteady Aerodynamic load; Blade-element Momentum Method; Platform Motion;
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