Hydroelastic code-to-code comparison for a tension leg spar-type floating wind turbine

Marine Structures

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 412-435

  Karimirad, Madjid ^a   Meissonnier, Quentin ^a   Gao, Zhen ^a   Moan, Torgeir ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Coupled hydroelastic dynamic analysis; Floating wind turbine; Tension leg spar (TLS)

Indexed keywords

COUPLED HYDROELASTIC DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; FLOATING WIND TURBINE; HYDRODYNAMIC LOADS; HYDROELASTIC; INTEGRATION METHOD; MORISON FORMULA; NONLINEAR EFFECT; NUMERICAL CODE; OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES; POWER PERFORMANCE; RESPONSE ANALYSIS; ROBUST DESIGNS; SPAR MOTIONS; STRUCTURAL MODELLING; SUPPORT STRUCTURES; SURGE FREQUENCY; TENSION LEG SPAR (TLS); TENSION RESPONSE; TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; WAVE SIMULATIONS; WAVE-INDUCED MOTIONS; WIND LOAD;

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROELASTICITY; SEEBECK EFFECT; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

WIND TURBINES;

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; FLOATING STRUCTURE; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROELASTICITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SUPPORT STRUCTURE; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 80052149427     PISSN: 09518339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marstruc.2011.05.006     Document Type: Article

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