Modeling and Simulation of Floating Offshore Wind Farms

Dear Colleagues,

The new future of power production within the wind energy sector is floating offshore wind farms. This emerging technology is opening new possibilities for wind power locations and will play a critical role in the transition to a cleaner energy supply, contributing significantly to an increase in wind power. However, the challenges faced in developing this new technology are significant, and outstanding research and innovation are required in areas such as design, energy extraction, installation, maintenance, monitoring, etc., to minimize risks and maximize the chances of a successful future installations.

This Special Issue aims to address the challenges the floating offshore wind turbines sector is facing by providing innovative research ideas and reporting current advances in the field of modeling and simulation of wind farms. Contributions across a broad spectrum of scientific and engineering disciplines concerned with technological developments in offshore wind power generation, energy conversion, and integration are of great importance for the journal.

This Special Issue seeks to disseminate knowledge on various aspects of offshore wind farm modeling and simulation and promote fundamental, multidisciplinary, and applied research in the field. This Special Issue offers a significant opportunity for reporting advancements in the field that can help to realize the potential of floating offshore wind farms. This Special Issue covers but is not limited to a wide range of topics, including:

• Offshore wind farms
• Digital twins
• Cost modeling
• Mooring systems
• Wind resource
• Fluid surface interaction
• Wind–wave interaction
• Ocean–currents
• Wind float foundation technology
• Marine infrastructure
• Wake dynamics and steering
• Floating platform design
• Control mechanisms
• Site Selection
• Reduced-order modeling
• Applications and economics
• Aeroelasticity and aeroacoustics
• Environmental and legal aspects
• Wind turbine aerodynamics
• Installation and condition monitoring
• Power generation, storage, and transmission
• Novel wind-turbine designs and optimization
• Analytical, empirical, and numerical modeling

Dr. M. Salman Siddiqui
Guest Editor

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