Assessment of the importance of mooring dynamics on the global response of the DeepCwind floating semisubmersible offshore wind turbine

Proceedings of the International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 359-368

  Masciola, Marco ^a   Robertson, Amy ^a   Jonkman, Jason ^a   Coulling, Alexander ^b   Goupee, Andrew ^b  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled analysis; Floating wind turbine; Mooring dynamics; Semisubmersible

Indexed keywords

COUPLED ANALYSIS; FLOATING OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES; FLOATING WIND TURBINES; MOORING LINE DYNAMICS; OPEN-SOURCE PROGRAM; QUASISTATIC APPROXIMATIONS; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; WIND TURBINE AERODYNAMICS;

CABLES; DYNAMICS; OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES; SEMISUBMERSIBLES;

MOORING;

EID: 84883700846     PISSN: 10986189     EISSN: 15551792     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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