Research & Development
Project
Design of floating wind turbines and impacts of energetic steep and breaking waves
Floating offshore wind turbines will generally be deployed in areas with strong winds and powerful waves. This needs to be taken into account at the design stage because of the damage that can be caused to systems.
To date, little account has been taken of the loads caused by the extreme waves that apply to floating wind turbines. We therefore need to go further in defining specific engineering methods to take into account the effect of breaking waves on floating wind turbines.
DIMPACT has led to the development of a method for defining the design sea state specific to floating offshore wind turbines. An engineering solution has also been developed for estimating the loads caused by non-linear waves in coupled numerical models such as OpenFAST. This is mentioned in the recommendation documents published in 2024 by the DNV certification body
This project was led by France Energies Marines.
This project received French State funding managed by the National Research Agency under the France 2030 investment plan (ANR-10-IEED-0006-34). It also received financial support from the Brittany and La Réunion regions.
This project was certified by the maritime clusters Pôle Mer Bretagne Atlantique and Pôle Mer Méditerranée.
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