Anne Gosset (CITENI-UDC) — CFD simulation of floating platforms and support vessels for offshore wind turbines
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📋 "CFD simulation of floating platforms and support vessels for offshore wind turbines" led by Anne Gosset from Centro de Investigación en Tecnoloxías Navais e Industriais da Universidade da Coruña - CITENI in the Campus Industrial de Ferrol (Universidade da Coruña) from Universidade da Coruña
Floating wind energy is a key factor in the shift to clean energy, particularly in generating sustainable energy from offshore wind. With the increasing number of wind farms along European coastlines, regular maintenance becomes a critical task due to the challenging environmental conditions in such places.
Drones are increasingly being used to perform these tasks for efficiency purposes, but actions such as taking off and landing on top of the turbine boxes are critically complex due to the wavy movement of the floating platform. Such complexity arises from the six possible directions of motion of the moving platform combined with the seabed anchorage that allows some movement.
🖥️ Thanks to RES supercomputer hashtag#FinisterraeIII from CESGA, the team could perform two-phase CFD simulations of a VolturnUS floating platform with the OpenFOAM open-source libraries.
They were able to generate a high-fidelity database for the motion of offshore wind turbine platforms in regular waves, which can be used for the validation of simpler and faster codes. In addition, the researchers defined a methodology to accurately model the mooring lines with reduced computational cost, testing it with simple floating objects before the actual complex platform.
The images show the motion of a moored box with the tensions in the mooring lines, obtained during the preliminary tuning of the mooring model, and the motion of an actual VolturnUS platform in regular waves.