Fast and effective numerical models describing the effect of platform motion on the performance of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) are fundamental to assess energy harvesting potential in large offshore wind farms. The purpose of this paper is to implement a CFD-based Computationally-Efficient approach based on an actuator line model (ALM) for FOWTs aerodynamics. Such a tool aims at complementing reasonable accuracy and affordable computational effort while being able to investigate the effects of the platform motions on the wake evolution. The actuator line model for FOWTs is developed by implementing a dedicated C++ library in the OpenFOAM toolbox. In addition, a tip treatment is applied to involve the tip effects induced by the pressure equalization from the suction and pressure sides. Results show that employing ALM decreases computational cost and preprocessing time for producing appropriate computational grids, as just about 400k and 600k grids are necessary for solving two representative test cases of fixed-bottom turbines (NREL Phase VI and NREL 5-MW) with reasonable accuracy. The inclusion of platform motion is then introduced, and the results showed that ALM is capable of capturing vortices trajectory, potential blade-vortex interactions, and vortex pairing and vortex ring state phenomenon in FOWTs.

Modeling of near wake characteristics in floating offshore wind turbines using an actuator line method

Arabgolarcheh A.
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Jannesarahmadi S.;Benini E.
2022

Abstract

Fast and effective numerical models describing the effect of platform motion on the performance of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) are fundamental to assess energy harvesting potential in large offshore wind farms. The purpose of this paper is to implement a CFD-based Computationally-Efficient approach based on an actuator line model (ALM) for FOWTs aerodynamics. Such a tool aims at complementing reasonable accuracy and affordable computational effort while being able to investigate the effects of the platform motions on the wake evolution. The actuator line model for FOWTs is developed by implementing a dedicated C++ library in the OpenFOAM toolbox. In addition, a tip treatment is applied to involve the tip effects induced by the pressure equalization from the suction and pressure sides. Results show that employing ALM decreases computational cost and preprocessing time for producing appropriate computational grids, as just about 400k and 600k grids are necessary for solving two representative test cases of fixed-bottom turbines (NREL Phase VI and NREL 5-MW) with reasonable accuracy. The inclusion of platform motion is then introduced, and the results showed that ALM is capable of capturing vortices trajectory, potential blade-vortex interactions, and vortex pairing and vortex ring state phenomenon in FOWTs.
2022
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