adaptivity to any design of floating wind turbine.high computational efficiency (1000 seconds of simulation time in 1 second real time on a standard computer).The main capabilities of the application: at critical interfaces between wind turbine and floating substructure. With high efficiency coupled system analysis are performed which allows to calculate structural loads e.g. It further supports developer to review and assess the KPI of their project with limited information from the wind turbine OEM and the platform designer. The new development address the rising need of floating wind industry to make design decisions at an early project stage.

Reducing the Risk in Floating Wind Projects This new implementation is highly computationally efficient, provides model analysis functionalities and supports the decision making process. Sowento has advanced its in-house modeling tool for floating wind turbines into a standalone application with a computational efficiency of 1000 times real time. Proper modeling of floating wind turbines is highly complex and covers multiple disciplines! This complexity makes design decisions a challenging process. These models are computationally demanding and the design engineer cannot easily run quick sensitivity analyses, or even optimizations.Īltogether, the complexity makes design decisions a challenging process which ask for simplification and new approaches to answer the challenges of the industry. Currently, there are multiple nonlinear 3D design tool available that can run coupled analysis of floating wind turbines, e.g.

The design process is not streamlined but highly iterative and usually time-consuming. However, proper modeling of floating wind turbines is highly complex and covers multiple disciplines. Floating wind turbines imply a rise of new challenges in design and development and crucial decisions have to be made even at an early stage of project development.

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