AERO-HYDRO-ELASTIC SIMULATION OF TENSION LEG PLATFORM WIND TURBINE

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In this paper a multi-body system wind turbine with Tension Leg Platform (TLP) that subjected to stochastic wave and wind has been used within MSC ADAMS software for modeling it’s nonlinear behavior. For wind loading, the stochastic turbulent wind data have been extracted using TurbSim software. The AeroDyn module has been used for calculating lift and drag forces of turbine blades. The aerodynamics models in AeroDyn include both Blade Element Momentum and Generalized Dynamic Wake theories. The hydrodynamic loads in time domain have been calculated using HydroDyn module. Accounted for this module are linear hydrostatic restoring nonlinear viscous drag from incident wave kinematics, sea currents, and platform motion the added mass and damping contributions from linear wave radiation, including free surface memory effects and the incident wave excitation from linear diffraction in regular or irregular seas. By linking these modules with ADAMS / Solver milieu, the time domain, aero-hydro-elastic simulation of TLP type wind turbines has been achieved. The derived results have been compared with FAST’s outputs. The comparison shows the prosperity and accuracy of implementing analysis. The generality of analysis ensures that the simulation tool is applicable for any other types of the wind turbine, floating support platform, and mooring system configurations.

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Journal of Modeling in Engineering
Volume 10, Issue 30
November 2012
Pages 1-17

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  • Receive Date: 28 January 2017
  • Revise Date: 22 November 2024
  • Accept Date: 28 January 2017

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