The fluid-structure interaction analysis of aerodynamic performance of floating offshore wind turbine blade
Received:September 20, 2012  Revised:December 23, 2012
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DOI:10.7511/jslx201401016
KeyWord:floating offshore wind turbine  aerodynamic performance  sliding mesh  fluid-structure interaction
        
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任年鑫 大连理工大学 深海工程研究中心, 大连
李玉刚 大连理工大学 深海工程研究中心, 大连
欧进萍 大连理工大学 深海工程研究中心, 大连 ;大连理工大学 海岸和近海工程国家重点实验室, 大连
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Abstract:
      As the development of the deep-water floating offshore wind farm has becoming more and more promising around the world,the study of the motion effect of floating platform on both the steady operation performance of the wind turbine and the aerodynamic loads analysis of the blade is of great importance.Based on three dimensional Navier-Stocks equation and k-ε Renormalization Group Method (RNG) turbulence model,which is very suitable for the rotational fluid flow,numerical simulations for the aerodynamic performance of National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) of us 5MW offshore wind turbine blades have been done.The availability of the numerical model has been verified by comparing the numerical results with the corresponding design data from NREL.Furthermore,the complex nonlinear fluid-structure interaction between the blades and its surrounding airflow has been successfully investigated by using advanced sliding mesh technique to simulate the typical periodic motion of the floating platform.The effect of different motion amplitudes,and the effect of different motion periods have been studied.As a result,the law of the effects has been clarified in the view of physical mechanism.In summary,the main results of this work would play an active role in both the aerodynamic analysis of large floating offshore wind turbine and the motion performance design of the supporting floating platform.