Advances in the Simulation of Wind Conditions

A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Ocean Engineering".

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Section of Wind Energy, Department of Earth Sciences, Campus Gotland, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Interests: wind energy; wind farms; simulation of wind

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Dear Colleagues,

The accelerating growth of wind energy in recent years further emphasizes the need for an improved understanding and modeling of wind conditions for individual turbines, wind farms, farm to farm interaction, and atmospheric conditions in off- and on-shore situations.

The modeling challenges range from complex phenomena that cross many physical and temporal scales. State-of-the-art modeling tools include some of these phenomena; however, many tools only use a limited part of the full complexity, due to limited computational resources, among other reasons.

In this Special Issue in Advances in the Simulation of Wind Conditions, the available modeling possibilities and limitations are in focus. The focus further includes a wide range of physical and temporal modeling scales, i.e., ranging from mesoscale to large eddy simulations and from state-of-the-art to the future possibilities with engineering tools and possibly comparisons and benchmarks between these approaches.

Dr. Stefan Ivanell
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Keywords

  • wind energy
  • wakes
  • wind farms
  • atmospheric flow models
  • atmospheric turbulence
  • simulation of wind

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Effects of Topside Structures and Wind Profile on Wind Tunnel Testing of FPSO Vessel Models
by Seungho Lee, Sanghun Lee and Soon-Duck Kwon
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2020, 8(6), 422; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse8060422 - 09 Jun 2020
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This study examined the effects of wind loads on a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, focusing in particular on the impact of the turbulent wind profiles, the level of details of the topside structures, and the operation modes of the gantry [...] Read more.
This study examined the effects of wind loads on a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, focusing in particular on the impact of the turbulent wind profiles, the level of details of the topside structures, and the operation modes of the gantry cranes. A series of wind tunnel tests were performed on the FPSO vessel model, developed with a scale of 1:200. It was observed that the wind loads measured using a low-detail model were often greater than those measured using a high-detail model. The measured wind loads corresponding to the Norwegian Maritime Directorate (NMD) profile with an exponent of 0.14, were approximately 19% greater than those corresponding to the Frøya profile in the entire range of wind directions, because of the slightly higher mean wind speeds of the NMD profile. The wind forces increased by up to 8.6% when the cranes were at operating mode compared to when they were at parking mode. In view of the observations made regarding the detail level of the tested models, a medium-level detail FPSO model can be considered adequate for the wind tunnel testing if a high-detail model is not available. Full article
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