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Project Information

FLOAWER

Grant agreement ID: 860879

DOI 10.3030/860879

Project closed

EC signature date 4 September 2019

Start date 1 November 2019

End date 31 January 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost € 3 500 381,88

EU contribution € 3 500 381,88

Coordinated by

ECOLE CENTRALE DE NANTES
France

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (8)

Reports on the state of the art of System design to minimize LCOE

Reports on the state of the art of engineering models of platform dynamics and mooring linesESR8UROS of the windwaves assessment for the offshore WT design ESR9POLIMI ESR12POLIMI ESR13WaVEC and of LCOE calculation methods and significant values with influence on the LCOE ESR6UCC ESR7NTNU ESR8UROS ESR12WavEC ESR13POLIMI

Reports on the state of the art on wind resource assessment in deep waters

Reports on the state of the art of wind resource assessment in deep waters ESR1ECN of wind resource assessment from floating LiDAR data at deep sea ESR 2USTUTT and of wind resource from satellite data ESR 3DTU

Reports on state-of-the-art of dynamics of WTs

Reports on stateoftheart of advanced control strategies for floating turbines ESR9POLIMI experimental setups and techniques for floating turbines ESR10UOLD and of wakes and their interaction with floating turbines ESR11CNRS

Report on LCOE minimisation for FOW farms

Report on LCOE minimisation for FOW farms (ESR6/UCC, ESR7/NTNU, ESR8/UROS, ESR9/ POLIMI, ESR12/POLIMI, ESR13/WaVEC) UCC

Report on the LCOE minimization -oriented quality assessment on the measurement protocol in deep waters

Report on the LCOE minimization –oriented quality assessment on the measurement protocol in deep waters (ESR1, ESR2, ESR3, USTUTT)

Reports on state-of-the-art of floating WT design

Reports on stateoftheart of CFD techniques for FOWTs in waveonly conditions ESR4NTNU on existing numerical and experimental results for hydrodynamics of heave plates relevant for semisubmersible ESR5ECN on coupled aerohydro testings of a FOWT ESR6UCC and on mooring system design for FWT ESR7NTNU

Summary report regarding potential design improvements based on the WP results

Summary report regarding potential design improvements based on the WP results (ESR4, ESR5, ESR6, ESR7, ECN)

Report on wake dynamics of VAWT and HAWT

Report on wake dynamics of VAWT and HAWT (ESR9/POLIMI, ESR10/UOLD, ESR11/CNRS) POLIMI

Other (2)

Special FLOAWER mini-symposium in WESC 2021

Thanks to the support of EAWE, a mini-symposium dedicated to the FLOAWER project will be organised by the ESRs during WESC 2021 1

Side-event to WindEurope summit 2022

Organization and chairing of a side-event to the largest European event dedicated to wind energy industry: WindEurope Summit 2022.

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (2)

Leaflet dedicated to policy makers

Leaflet dedicated to policy makers in charge of the integration of the energy transition into the territorial and coastal planning

Final form to be disseminated towards industry

Final form to be disseminated towards industry indicating the expected reduction of the Levelized Cost of Energy obtained as an outcome of WP7

Publications

Conference proceedings (5)

Development of engineering cost models for integrated design optimization of onshore and offshore wind farms

Author(s): Yilmazlar, Kutay; Cacciola, Stefano; Alfonso Rodriguez, Maryi Xiolesmy; Croce, Alessandro
Published in: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Issue 2265 042042, 2022
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/2265/4/042042

Wind field reconstruction using nacelle based lidarmeasurements for floating wind turbines

Author(s): Moritz Gräfe, Vasilis Pettas and Po Wen Cheng
Published in: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2022
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/2265/4/042022

Effectiveness of dynamic induction control strategies on the wake of a wind turbine

Author(s): Montenegro Montero, M; Arcari, V; Cacciola, S; Croce, A
Published in: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Issue Volume 2265, 2022
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/2265/2/022054

Validation study of a CFD numerical solver for the oscillatory flow features around heave plates

Author(s): Seung-Yoon Han, Benjamin Bouscasse, Jean-Christophe Gilloteaux, David Le Touzé
Published in: ASME 2022 41st International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, Issue June 5–10, 2022, 2022, ISBN 978-0-7918-8593-2
Publisher: ASME 2022 41st International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering
DOI: 10.1115/omae2022-81116

Lidar-based virtual load sensors for mooring lines using artificial neural networks

Author(s): Moritz Gräfe, Umut Özinan and Po Wen Cheng
Published in: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2023
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/2626/1/012036

Peer reviewed articles (11)

Hydroelastic response of a flexible spar floating wind turbine: Numerical modelling and validation

Author(s): Xiaoming Ran, Vincent Leroy, Erin E. Bachynski-Polic
Published in: Ocean Engineering, 2023, ISSN 0029-8018
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2023.115635

Linear diffraction and radiation theory of water waves by a truncated vertical circular cylinder with heave plate in deep and shallow drafts

Author(s): Seung-Yoon Han, Benjamin Bouscasse, Vincent Leroy, David Le Touzé
Published in: International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Issue 2024, 2024, ISSN 2092-6782
Publisher: The Society of Naval Architects of Korea
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnaoe.2023.100580

Development of a Genetic Algorithm Code for the Design of Cylindrical Buoyancy Bodies for Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Substructures

Author(s): Victor Benifla; Frank Adam
Published in: Energies, Issue 15, 2022, Page(s) 1181, ISSN 1996-1073
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/en15031181

Analysis of Floating Offshore Wind Platform Hydrodynamics Using Underwater SPIV: A Review

Author(s): Navid Belvasi; Frances Judge; Jimmy Murphy; Cian Desmond
Published in: Energies, Issue Vol 15, Iss 13, 2022, Page(s) pp. 4641, ISSN 1996-1073
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/en15134641

Far-Wake Meandering of a Wind Turbine Model with Imposed Motions: An Experimental S-PIV Analysis

Author(s): Navid Belvasi; Boris Conan; Benyamin Schliffke; Laurent Perret; Cian Desmond; Jimmy Murphy; Sandrine Aubrun
Published in: Energies, Issue 15 (20), 2022, Page(s) pp.7757, ISSN 1996-1073
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/en15207757

Wind Retrieval from Constellations of Small SAR Satellites: Potential for Offshore Wind Resource Assessment

Author(s): Merete Badger, Aito Fujita, Krzysztof Orzel, Daniel Hatfield, Mark Kelly
Published in: Energies, Issue 16(9), 2023, Page(s) 1-19, ISSN 2078-2489
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/en16093819

Enhanced recovery caused by nonlinear dynamics in the wake of a floating offshore wind turbine

Author(s): Messmer T, Hölling M, Peinke J.
Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2024, ISSN 0022-1120
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2024.175

Vertical extrapolation of Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) ocean surface winds using machine-learning techniques

Author(s): Daniel Hatfield, Charlotte Bay Hasager, Ioanna Karagali
Published in: Wind Energy Science, 2023, ISSN 2366-7443
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/wes-8-621-2023

Machine learning based virtual load sensors for mooring lines using motion and lidar measurements

Author(s): Moritz Johann Gräfe; Vasilis Pettas; Nikolay Dimitrov; Po Wen Cheng
Published in: Wind Energy Science, 2024, ISSN 2366-7451
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/wes-2024-25

Quantification and correction of motion influence for nacelle-based lidar systems on floating wind turbines

Author(s): Moritz Gräfe, Vasilis Pettas, Julia Gottschall, and Po Wen Cheng
Published in: Wind Energy Science, Issue 6, 2023, Page(s) 925--946, ISSN 2366-7443
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/wes-8-925-2023

Comparing Offshore Ferry Lidar Measurements in the Southern Baltic Sea with ASCAT, FINO2 and WRF

Author(s): Daniel Hatfield; Ioanna Karagali; Charlotte Bay Hasager
Published in: Remote Sensing, Issue 2, 2022, Page(s) 1-17, ISSN 2078-2489
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs14061427