Model development and loads analysis of an offshore wind turbine on a tension leg platform with a comparison to other floating turbine concepts
Subtitle: April 2009
By: Denis Matha
Contributors: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.)
Series: Subcontract report NREL/SR -- 500-45891; NREL/SR -- 500-45891.
Publisher: National Renewable Energy Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Golden, Colo
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 113
Subjects: Offshore electric power plants; Research; Wind turbines; Computer simulation; Deep-sea moorings
Description: This report presents results of the analysis of a 5-MW wind turbine located on a floating offshore tension leg platform (TLP) that was conducted using the fully coupled time-domain aero-hydro-servo-elastic design code FAST with AeroDyn and HydroDyn. The report also provides a description of the development process of the TLP model. The model has been verified via comparisons to frequency-domain calculations. Important differences have been identified between the frequency-domain and time-domain simulations, and have generated implications for the conceptual design process. An extensive loads and stability analysis for ultimate and fatigue loads according to the procedure of the IEC 61400-3 offshore wind turbine design standard was performed with the verified TLP model. This report compares the loads for the wind turbine on the TLP to those of an equivalent land-based turbine. Major instabilities for the TLP are identified and described.
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Subcontract report; April 2009.

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