Limited by layout space and manufacturing costs, wake interaction in offshore wind farms is inevitable and can have adverse effects on the performance of downstream wind turbines. To gain a better understanding of the wake interaction between Floating Offshore Wind Turbines (FOWTs), this paper conducts coupled aero-hydrodynamic simulations for two spar-type FOWTs under different layouts. The Unsteady Actuator Line Model (UALM) is used to analyze the unsteady aerodynamic loads of the wind turbine, while the hydrodynamic responses of the floating support platform are obtained using the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) method. To predict the aero-hydrodynamic performance of the FOWT under combined wind and waves, an in-house CFD code developed at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), called FOWT-UALM-SJTU solver, is utilized. First, grid convergence test and time step sensitivity study are performed to determine appropriate simulation parameters. Subsequently, numerical simulations of two FOWTs under tandem and offset layouts are conducted to investigate the influence of wake interaction on the performance of downstream FOWT. The dynamic responses of the FWOT, including aerodynamic loads, platform motions, and wake characteristics, are analyzed in detail. From the simulation results and discussions, several conclusions are drawn. Both platform motions and wake interaction contribute to an increased variation range of inflow wind speed experienced by the downstream FOWT, thereby exacerbating the instability of its aerodynamic loads. Under the tandem layout, the platform motions of the upstream FOWT and the downstream FOWT exhibit opposite effects on the aerodynamic loads of the downstream FOWT. Moreover, platform motions increase turbulence intensity in the wake region, accelerating wake velocity recovery and widening the wake width.
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September 2023
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September 05 2023
Wake interaction between two spar-type floating offshore wind turbines under different layouts
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Recent Advances in Marine Hydrodynamics
Yang Huang (黄扬)
;
Yang Huang (黄扬)
(Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft)
1
Computational Marine Hydrodynamics Lab (CMHL), School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
, Shanghai 200240, China
2
Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering, University of Strathclyde
, Glasgow G4 0LZ, United Kingdom
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Weiwen Zhao (赵伟文)
;
Weiwen Zhao (赵伟文)
(Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing)
1
Computational Marine Hydrodynamics Lab (CMHL), School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
, Shanghai 200240, China
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Decheng Wan (万德成)
Decheng Wan (万德成)
a)
(Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing)
1
Computational Marine Hydrodynamics Lab (CMHL), School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
, Shanghai 200240, China
a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: dcwan@sjtu.edu.cn
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a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: dcwan@sjtu.edu.cn
Physics of Fluids 35, 097102 (2023)
Article history
Received:
June 12 2023
Accepted:
August 16 2023
Citation
Yang Huang, Weiwen Zhao, Decheng Wan; Wake interaction between two spar-type floating offshore wind turbines under different layouts. Physics of Fluids 1 September 2023; 35 (9): 097102. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0161759
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