Water entry (including slamming) and exit phenomena as well as green water on deck were observed during survivability model tests of a combined wind and wave energy converter concept. Here, a nonlinear numerical ...

Mooring systems are widely used in the offshore industry to limit the horizontal excursions of a floating structure from desired position in order for the structure to fulfill the required tasks. Safety of mooring systems ...

Deployment of larger scale wind turbine systems, particularly offshore wind turbine, requires more organized operation and maintenance strategies to make it as competitive as the classical electric power stations. It is ...

Recently there is an increasing interest in the development of offshore floating vertical axis wind turbines (FVAWTs). A FVAWT mounted on a semi-submersible has been proposed by several researchers, and a FVAWT with a spar ...

Recently, interest in the development of floating vertical axis wind turbines (FVAWTs) has been increasing, since FVAWTs might prove to be one of the optimal configurations in deep waters. In this study, a FVAWT with a 5 ...

Harvesting offshore wind energy resources using floating vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) has attracted an increasing interest in recent years. Due to its potential impact on fatigue damage, the aerodynamic damping ...

Currently development of floating wind turbines for deep water is mainly based on horizontal axis wind turbines (HAWTs). However, floating vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) are possible alternative due to their potential ...

Recently the interest in developing vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) for offshore application has been increasing. Among the aerodynamic models of VAWTs, double multi-streamtube (DMST) and actuator cylinder (AC) models ...

Offshore wind energy is one of the most promising renewable energy resources and an increasing interest arises to develop floating vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs), which have the potential to reduce the cost of energy. ...

Floating vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) are promising solutions for exploiting the wind energy resource in deep waters due to their potential cost-of-energy reduction. The number of blades is one of the main concerns ...