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<p>This paper focuses on the effect of water depth on the hydrodynamics of floating offshore wind turbines with open-hole anti-heave devices. The three-floating-body wind turbine platform is used as the primary research object in this paper. The effect of water depth on the reduction of the heave motion of a floating platform with anti-heave devices is systematically investigated through a series of experiments and numerical simulations. The results show high agreement between the test results and simulations, with larger values of heave motion in deep water. A wind turbine platform with anti-heave devices can effectively reduce the lifting and sinking motions when the wave period is large.</p>
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This paper focuses on the effect of water depth on the hydrodynamics of floating offshore wind turbines with open-hole anti-heave devices. The three-floating-body wind turbine platform is used as the primary research object in this paper. The effect of water depth on the reduction of the heave motion of a floating platform with anti-heave devices is systematically investigated through a series of experiments and numerical simulations. The results show high agreement between the test results and simulations, with larger values of heave motion in deep water. A wind turbine platform with anti-heave devices can effectively reduce the lifting and sinking motions when the wave period is large.

Study of the Hydrodynamic Characteristics of Anti-Heave Devices of Wind Turbine Platforms at Different Water Depths

School of Naval Architecture and Maritime

School of Naval Architecture Ocean and Civil Engineering

Marine Design and Research Institute of China

Polish Maritime Research

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

This paper focuses on the effect of water depth on the hydrodynamics of floating offshore wind turbines with open-hole anti-heave devices. The...

Study of the Hydrodynamic Characteristics of Anti-Heave Devices of Wind Turbine Platforms at Different Water Depths

Published Online: Mar 29, 2024

Page range: 35 - 42

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pomr-2024-0004

Keywords
anti-heave device, hydrodynamic analysis, different water depths

© 2024 Hongyuan Xu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Study of the Hydrodynamic Characteristics of Anti-Heave Devices of Wind Turbine Platforms at Different Water Depths

Published Online: Mar 29, 2024

Page range: 35 - 42

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pomr-2024-0004

Keywordsanti-heave device, hydrodynamic analysis, different water depths

© 2024 Hongyuan Xu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
anti-heave device, hydrodynamic analysis, different water depths