Methodology for wind/wave basin testing of floating offshore wind turbines

Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages 445-454

  Martin, Heather R ^a   Kimball, Richard W ^b   Viselli, Anthony M ^a   Goupee, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b MAINE MARITIME ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ARCTIC ENGINEERING; MOORING; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SPAR PLATFORMS; WIND POWER;

FLOATING OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES; FLOATING WIND TURBINES; LARGE-SCALES; MODEL TESTING; OFFSHORE VESSELS; SCALE-MODEL; SCALING METHODOLOGY; WAVE BASINS; WIND TURBINE AERODYNAMICS; WIND WAVE;

TENSION-LEG PLATFORMS;

EID: 84884475043     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/OMAE2012-83627     Document Type: Conference Paper

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