Demo floating wind turbine model
Category: Demo models
Problem
Bladed versions: compatible with Bladed 4.11.
Date of last article update: 08 September 2022
Floating wind turbine is difficult to setup and there are no examples to work from.
Solution
A demo floating model can be downloaded by using this link
The model includes:
All necessary information to run an idling simulation.
Pre-loaded hydrodynamics data.
Use of boundary element method (BEM) to compute hydrodynamic loads.
Mooring line specified using a manually defined lookup table.
A .SEA file (that describes a calm sea state) required for computation of loading using BEM hydrodynamics.
The OC4 WAMIT data that has been loaded into the Bladed project file ($PJ).
Keywords Floating
Hydrodynamics
BEM
SEA
Hydrostatics
Boundary Element Method
Mooring line
Moorings
WAMIT