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Wake characteristics and vortex structure evolution of floating offshore wind turbine under surge motion

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  • Wang, Tengyuan
  • Cai, Chang
  • Liu, Junbo
  • Peng, Chaoyi
  • Wang, Yibo
  • Sun, Xiangyu
  • Zhong, Xiaohui
  • Zhang, Jingjing
  • Li, Qingan

Abstract

Offshore wind energy is booming and floating offshore wind has been proved to be a promising clean energy. Wake effect is one of the biggest challenges in large-scale floating wind farm which results in power loss and increased fatigue load. In this paper, actuator line model (ALM) coupled with unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (URANS) is adopted to investigate the wake characteristics and evolution of floating wind turbine under motion. Besides, modal analysis is adopted to extract typical features of turbine wake. Velocity fluctuation is the prominent characteristic of floating turbine wake. The increase of surge frequency results in the decrease of velocity fluctuating region and large surge amplitude leads to bigger velocity deficit fluctuations. In addition, the surge motion brings a faster recovery rate than fixed wind turbine. The induced velocity field generated by vortex ring structure is the key to understanding complex evolution of turbine wake and the vortex ring structure is analyzed in this paper. With the deep understanding of FOWT wake, an innovative vortex ring structure model is proposed in this paper. This work is the basic work of developing the engineering wake model of floating wind turbine, to cope with the wake effect challenge in the large-scale floating wind farm.

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  • Wang, Tengyuan & Cai, Chang & Liu, Junbo & Peng, Chaoyi & Wang, Yibo & Sun, Xiangyu & Zhong, Xiaohui & Zhang, Jingjing & Li, Qingan, 2024. "Wake characteristics and vortex structure evolution of floating offshore wind turbine under surge motion," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 302(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:302:y:2024:i:c:s0360544224015615
    DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2024.131788
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