Wave response experiment on SPAR-type floating bodies for offshore wind turbine

Proceedings of the International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 378-383

  Utsunomiya, Tomoaki ^a   Nishida, Eitaro ^a   Sato, Iku ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Tsubota)   (Japan)

Author keywords

Floating body; Irregular wave; Morison's equation; Offshore wind turbine; Spar

Indexed keywords

FLOATING BODIES; GRAVITY CENTERS; IRREGULAR WAVES; MORISON'S EQUATION; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES; POTENTIAL THEORY; SCALE MODELS; THREE MODELS; WAVE RESPONSE; WIND TURBINE SYSTEMS;

BUILDING MATERIALS; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); ENERGY RESOURCES; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; EXPERIMENTS; REINFORCED CONCRETE; STATIC RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; WIND TURBINES;

WIND POWER;

EID: 74549171434     PISSN: 10986189     EISSN: 15551792     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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