The objective of LEAF project is to respond to a critical need in the offshore wind energy sector through the coordinate effort of the main designers of floating platforms at the national level with the goal of improving Spain’s strategic position internationally.
At the same time, we propose commercial solutions with optimization capacity for each emplacement. These solutions reduce the cost of floating offshore wind power generation, accelerating its commercialization.
GOALS:
- Design of integrated numerical models to capture complex physical phenomena in floating wind turbines.
- Design of hydrodynamic models based on Computational Fluid Dynamics.
- Design of control strategies for floating wind turbines.
- Design of different mooring systems for easy installation and adaptable depth
MUST is an in-house development based on OpenFAST [1]. It is designed to allow the simulation of more than one wind turbine (Tower, Rotor, Nacelle) installed on a floating platform, following the work by [2].
MUST has been coupled to a CENER in-house aerodynamic module, AeroVIEW [3], [4] (Aerodynamic Vortex fIlamEnt Wake), that is able to capture the aerodynamic interaction between nearby rotors in aeroelastic simulations and also the interaction between the rotor with its own wake.
[1] NREL, 2019. “OpenFAST Documentation”.
[2] Bae, Y., 2013. “Coupled dynamic analysis of multiple unit floating offshore wind turbine”. PhD. Dissertation, 53 (May).
[3] Martín-San-Román R, Azcona-Armendáriz J and Cuerva-Tejero A. “Lifting line free wake vortex filament method for the evaluation of floating offshore wind turbines. First step: validation for fixed wind turbines”. In IWOTC, ASME 2019 2nd International Offshore Wind Technical Conference.
[4] Martín-San-Román R, Benito-Cia P, Azcona-Armendáriz J and Cuerva-Tejero A.“Validation of a free vortex filament wake module for the integrated simulation of multi-rotor wind turbines”. Renewable Energy,179, pp. 1706–1718, 2021.
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This project has been co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) with the aim of promoting technological development, innovation and quality research.
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