Realizing the critical importance the role physical experimental tests play in understanding the dynamics of floating offshore wind turbines, the DeepCwind consortium conducted a one-fiftieth-scale model test program where several floating wind platforms were subjected to a variety of wind and wave loading condition at the Maritime Research Institute Netherlands wave basin. This paper describes the observed behavior of a tension-leg platform, one of three platforms tested, and the systematic effort to predict the measured response with the FAST simulation tool using a model primarily based on consensus geometric and mass properties of the test specimen.
Prowell, I.; Robertson, A.; Jonkman, J.; Stewart, G. M.; Goupee, A. J.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Wind Plant Modeling & Simulation
Design Methods, Tools & Standards
Offshore Wind
Technical Report