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Dongeun Kim and Yoon Hyeok Bae
Generally, new and renewable energy systems generate electricity by installing and operating multiple modules simultaneously. In the Republic of Korea, recent studies and developments have focused on asymmetric wave energy converters (hereafter referred ...
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Cherng-Jer Chueh, Chun-Hung Chien, Ching Lin, Ting-Yan Lin and Mao-Hsiung Chiang
This study aims to develop dynamic co-simulation and control for analyzing the IEA 15 MW semi-submersible floating wind turbine under Taiwan offshore-wind-farm conditions of wind and wave. The IEA 15 MW wind turbine is mounted on a UMaine VolturnUS-S ref...
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Masaki Katafuchi, Hideyuki Suzuki, Yuya Higuchi, Hidetaka Houtani, Edgard B. Malta and Rodolfo T. Gonçalves
This paper aims to investigate the nonlinear motion characteristics of a monocolumn type floater with skirts numerically and experimentally. Wave calibration, free decay, and regular wave tests were simulated using a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) co...
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Taisuke Takata, Mayuko Takaoka, Rodolfo T. Gonçalves, Hidetaka Houtani, Yasuo Yoshimura, Kentaro Hara, Sho Oh, Raúl Dotta, Edgard B. Malta, Kazuhiro Iijima and Hideyuki Suzuki
A tank experiment using a flexible multi-column floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) model in regular waves was carried out to clarify the floater elastic response and its influence on the floater motion. The model motion response from the experiment wa...
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Lei Tan, Tomoki Ikoma, Yasuhiro Aida and Koichi Masuda
Barge-type platforms with moonpools are a promising type of foundation for floating offshore wind turbines due to their good seakeeping performance. In this paper, the mean wave drift force on a barge-type vertical-axis floating wind turbine with multipl...
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Hideyuki Suzuki, Yuta Sakai, Yasuo Yoshimura, Hidetaka Houtani, Lucas H. S. Carmo, Haruki Yoshimoto, Ken Kamizawa and Rodolfo T. Gonçalves
A shallow draft cylindrical barge type floater with footing close to the water surface was experimentally evaluated in waves to investigate non-linear motion characteristics. The floater was designed to be used as an option for FOWT?floating offshore win...
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J. Cameron McNatt, Aaron Porter and Kelley Ruehl
This numerical study compares the wave field generated by the spectral wave action balance code, SNL-SWAN, to the linear-wave boundary-element method (BEM) code, WAMIT. The objective of this study is to assess the performance of SNL-SWAN for modeling wav...
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Majid A Bhinder and Jimmy Murphy
Viscous drag, nonlinear in nature, is an important aspect of the fluid?structure interaction modelling and is usually not taken into account when the fluid is assumed to be inviscid. Potential flow solvers can competently compute radiation damping, which...
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Yingyi Liu
This paper presents the theoretical background, the numerical implementation, and the applications of a new software that has been developed in recent years for the analysis of wave-structure interactions. The software is developed in the frequency domai...
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