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OF²: coupling OpenFAST and OpenFOAM for high-fidelity aero-hydro-servo-elastic FOWT simulations.
Title: | OF²: coupling OpenFAST and OpenFOAM for high-fidelity aero-hydro-servo-elastic FOWT simulations. |
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Authors: | Campaña-Alonso, Guillén, Martín-San-Román, Raquel, Méndez-López, Beatriz, Benito-Cia, Pablo, Azcona-Armendáriz, José |
Source: | Wind Energy Science; 2023, Vol. 8 Issue 10, p1597-1611, 15p |
Abstract: | The numerical study of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) requires accurate integrated simulations which consider the aerodynamic, hydrodynamic, servo and elastic responses of these systems. In addition, the floating system dynamics couplings need to be included to calculate the excitation over the ensemble accurately. In this paper, a new tool has been developed for coupling NREL's aero-servo-elastic tool OpenFAST with the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) toolbox OpenFOAM. OpenFAST is used to model the rotor aerodynamics along with the flexible response of the different components of the wind turbine and the controller at each time step considering the dynamic response of the platform. OpenFOAM is used to simulate the hydrodynamics and the platform's response considering the loads from the wind turbine. The whole simulation environment is called OF |
Subject Terms: | OFFSHORE wind power plants, WIND turbines, COMPUTATIONAL fluid dynamics, HYDRODYNAMICS, ELASTICITY |
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ISSN: | 23667443 |
DOI: | 10.5194/wes-8-1597-2023 |
Database: | Complementary Index |
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