An extensive code-to-code comparison of a modified version of IEA15MW-UMaine Floating Wind Turbine for H2020 HIPERWIND project

Taeseong Kim (1) , Anand Natarajan (1) , Anaïs Lovera (2) , Emricka Julan (2) , Christophe Peyrard (3) , Matteo Capaldo (2) , Guillaume Huwart (4) , Pauline Bozonnet (4) , Martin Guiton (4)

1 DTU Wind Energy
2 EDF Lab Saclay
3 EDF Lab Chatou
4 IFPEN - IFP Energies nouvelles

An extensive code-to-code comparison among DIEGO, DLW and HAWC2 has been performed on a floating wind turbine (modified version of UMaine floater with IEAWIND 15MW wind turbine). In total, 10 cases are compared, and a few key results of this comparison are reported in this paper. The load cases have been defined in the D1.2 and the results are presented in this document. From the comparisons, it is clearly seen that the results predicted by the three codes are in general good agreement despite some differences in specific degrees of freedom like sway and yaw for the extreme wind park case would require additional investigations.

Keywords: FOWT; aero-servo-hydro-elastic model; benchmark; IEA 15MW; semisubmersible

Domains: Environmental Engineering

Taeseong Kim, Anand Natarajan, Anaïs Lovera, Emricka Julan, Christophe Peyrard, et al.. An extensive code-to-code comparison of a modified version of IEA15MW-UMaine Floating Wind Turbine for H2020 HIPERWIND project. TORQUE 2022 : Science of Making Torque from Wind, Jun 2022, Delft, Netherlands. ⟨hal-03891278⟩