• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.559-579
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• 2015

An experimental study of the effect of mooring systems on the dynamics of a SPAR buoy-type floating offshore wind turbine is presented. The effects of the Center of Gravity (COG), mooring line spring constant, and fairlead location on the turbine's motion in response to regular waves are investigated. Experimental results show that for a typical mooring system of a SPAR buoy-type Floating Offshore Wind Turbine (FOWT), the effect of mooring systems on the dynamics of the turbine can be considered negligible. However, the pitch decreases notably as the COG increases. The COG and spring constant of the mooring line have a negligible effect on the fairlead displacement. Numerical simulation and sensitivity analysis show that the wind turbine motion and its sensitivity to changes in the mooring system and COG are very large near resonant frequencies. The test results can be used to validate numerical simulation tools for FOWTs.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.367-375
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• 2020

This paper presents an integrated analysis about dynamic performance of a Floating Offshore Wind Turbine (FOWT) OC4 DeepCwind with semi-submersible platform under real sea environment. The emphasis of this paper is to investigate how the wave mean drift force and slow-drift wave excitation load (Quadratic transfer function, namely QTF) influence the platform motions, mooring line tension and tower base bending moments. Second order potential theory is being used for computing linear and nonlinear wave effects, including first order wave force, mean drift force and slow-drift excitation loads. Morison model is utilized to account the viscous effect from fluid. This approach considers floating wind turbine as an integrated coupled system. Two time-domain solvers, SIMA (SIMO/RIFLEX/AERODYN) and FAST are being chosen to analyze the global response of the integrated coupled system under small, moderate and severe sea condition. Results show that second order mean drift force and slow-drift force will drift the floater away along wave propagation direction. At the same time, slow-drift force has larger effect than mean drift force. Also tension of the mooring line at fairlead and tower base loads are increased accordingly in all sea conditions under investigation.

• 신재생에너지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.26-34
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• 2024

Floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) have been developed to overcome large water depths and leverage the abundant wind resource in deep seas. However, wind-wave misalignment can occur depending on the weather conditions, and most megawatt (MW)-class turbines are horizontal-axis wind turbines subjected to yaw errors. Therefore, the power performance and dynamic response of super-large FOWTs exposed simultaneously to these external conditions must be analyzed. In this study, several scenarios combining wind-wave misalignment and yaw error were considered. The IEA 15 MW reference FOWT (v1.1.2) and OpenFAST (v3.4.1) were used to perform numerical simulations. The results show that the power performance was affected more significantly by the yaw error; therefore, the generator power reduction and variability increased significantly. However, the dynamic response was affected more significantly by the wind-wave misalignment increased; thus, the change in the platform 6-DOF and tower loads (top and base) increased significantly. These results can be facilitate improvements to the power performance and structural integrity of FOWTs during the design process.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.139-160
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• 2015

The global performance of the 5MW OC4 semisubmersible floating wind turbine in random waves was numerically simulated by using the turbine-floater-mooring fully coupled and time-domain dynamic analysis program FAST-CHARM3D. There have been many papers regarding floating offshore wind turbines but the effects of second-order wave-body interactions on their global performance have rarely been studied. The second-order wave forces are actually small compared to the first-order wave forces, but its effect cannot be ignored when the natural frequencies of a floating system are outside the wave-frequency range. In the case of semi-submersible platform, second-order difference-frequency wave-diffraction forces and moments become important since surge/sway and pitch/roll natural frequencies are lower than those of typical incident waves. The computational effort related to the full second-order diffraction calculation is typically very heavy, so in many cases, the simplified approach called Newman's approximation or first-order-wave-force-only are used. However, it needs to be justified against more complete solutions with full QTF (quadratic transfer function), which is a main subject of the present study. The numerically simulated results for the 5MW OC4 semisubmersible floating wind turbine by FAST-CHARM3D are also extensively compared with the DeepCWind model test results by Technip/NREL/UMaine. The predicted motions and mooring tensions for two white-noise input-wave spectra agree well against the measure values. In this paper, the numerical static-offset and free-decay tests are also conducted to verify the system stiffness, damping, and natural frequencies against the experimental results. They also agree well to verify that the dynamic system modeling is correct to the details. The performance of the simplified approaches instead of using the full QTF are also tested.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.599-616
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• 2021

The semi-submersible with three circular columns is an original concept of efficient multifunctional platform, which can be used for marginal oil, gas field, and Floater of Wind Turbines (FOWT). However, under certain flow conditions, especially in uniform current with specific velocities, the eddies will alternatively form and drop behind columns, resulting in the fluctuating lift force and drag force. Consequently, the semi-submersible will subject to the Flow-Induced Motions (FIM). Based on the Detached Eddy Simulation (DES) method, the numerical studies were carried out to understand the FIM characteristics of the three-column semi-submersible at two different parameters, i.e., current incidences (0°, 30°, and 60°-incidences) and reduced velocities (4 ≤ U_r ≤ 14). The results indicate that the lock-in range of 6 ≤ U_r ≤ 10 for the transverse motions is presented, and the largest transverse non-dimensional nominal amplitude is observed at 60°-incidence, with a value of A_y/D = 0:481. The largest yaw amplitude A_yaw is around 3.0° at 0°-incidence in the range of 8 ≤ U_r ≤ 12. The motion magnitude is basically the same as that of a four-column semi-submersible. However, smaller responses are presented compared to those of the three-column systems revealing the mitigation effect of the pontoon on FIM.

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.479-487
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• 2023

최근 지구 온난화의 영향으로 태풍의 파괴력이 증가함에 따라 부유식 해상풍력발전기의 막대한 유실과 붕괴에 대한 우려가 깊어지고 있다. 부유식 해상풍력발전기의 안전한 운영을 위해 새로운 형태의 탈착형 계류 시스템 개발이 요구되고 있다. 본 연구에서 고려한 새로운 반잠수식 계류 풀리는 기존의 탈착형 계류 장치에 비해 계류 라인으로 부유식 해상풍력 터빈을 보다 쉽게 탈부착할 수 있도록 고안되었다. 8MW급 부유식 해상풍력발전기에 적용 가능한 반잠수식 계류 풀리의 초기 설계에 대한 구조적 안전성을 검토하기 위해 3D 프린터를 이용하여 축소구조모형을 제작하고, 이 모형에 대한 구조시험을 수행하였다. 축소 모형의 구조시험을 위해 3D 프린팅에 사용된 ABS 소재의 인장 시편을 제작하고 인장시험을 수행하여 소재의 물성을 평가하였다. 인장시험에서 얻은 재료 특성과 축소모형 구조 시험과 동일한 하중 및 경계 조건을 적용하여 반잠수식 계류 풀리의 유한요소해석을 수행하였다. 유한요소해석을 통해 반잠수식 계류 풀리의 구조적 취약 부분을 검토하였다. 반잠수식 계류 풀리의 주요 하중조건을 고려하여 구조모형시험을 수행하였으며, 재료의 최대인장응력 이상이 발생하는 위치에 대해 유한요소해석과 시험 결과를 비교하였다. 유한요소해석과 모형시험의 결과로부터 작동조건에서는 Body와 Wheel의 연결부 구조가 취약한 것으로 파악되었고, 계류조건에서는 Body와 Chain stopper의 연결부 구조가 취약한 것으로 검토되었다. 축소모형 구조시험에서 나타난 SMP의 구조 취약부는 구조해석의 결과와 일치하는 것으로 나타났다. 연구 결과를 통해 반잠수식 계류 풀리의 초기 설계에 대한 구조적 안전성을 실험적으로 검증할 수 있었다. 또한, 본 연구 결과는 상세설계 단계에서 반잠수식 계류 풀리의 구조 강도를 향상시키는데 유용하게 활용될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.