Project description
Floating offshore wind turbines for deep water exploration
Most EU offshore wind farms are located in the shallow waters of the North Sea. Developing floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) for deeper waters requires costly and complex simulations due to the challenging turbulent conditions they face. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the WINHDG project will create a high-fidelity, cost-effective numerical flow solver to simulate FOWT aerodynamics on the optimised GPU platform TUCANGPU. The solver will be validated by simulating a 5MW NREL turbine specifically designed for FOWTs and benchmarked against OpenFAST, NREL’s open-source wind turbine simulation tool. Additionally, the project will improve turbine blade geometry and aerodynamic performance through a parametric study.
Objective
Becoming energy independent is what nations rest on. When environmental concerns are considered, renewable energy harvest is the clear choice. Renewable wind energy can be obtained onshore or offshore. However, offshore harvest offers irresistible advantages, including higher output rate, less space constraints, no visual or noise pollution . Currently, EU’s largest offshore wind farms are located in the shallow North Sea , due to the fact that current fixed offshore wind turbine technology is suitable only for depths up to 60 meters. To take better advantage of EU’s maritime space (including the deeper waters) developing Floating Offshore Wind Turbine (FOWT) technology is utterly necessary. To develop FOWT technology, either astronomically pricey laboratory tests or high-fidelity numerical simulations are required. Numerical simulation of FOWTs is quite involved as turbines are subjected to turbulent flow conditions with rapid changes in wind speed and direction. When combined with the interaction of rotating blades, aerodynamic simulation (modelling) of FOWTs get computationally extremely demanding.
The main objective of WINHDG project is to develop a high fidelity and cost-effective numerical flow solver for the aerodynamic simulation of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs).
To achieve this overarching goal, the following specific objectives are stated:
• Implement beyond-the-state-of-the-art advanced numerical techniques for the aerodynamic simulation of FOWTs, on a fully optimized GPU computing platform, TUCANGPU.
• Validate this flow solver through the simulation of a 5MW NREL turbine (specifically designed for FOWTs) and analyse its performance via comparative benchmarking with OpenFAST, NREL’s open-source wind turbine simulation tool.
• Use the WINHDG solver to improve the geometric design and the aerodynamic performance of the turbine blades via parametric study that count for platform motion and rotations and oscillations of turbine tower.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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28903 Getafe (Madrid)
Spain
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