Feasibility assessment of motion compensated cranes at an early design stage

Current service and installation activities to offshore wind turbines (OWTs) are mainly carried out by jack-up vessels. These vessels are less susceptive to disturbances caused by sea waves when they lift their hull from the water level by jacking down multiple legs to the seabed. An alternative is a crane mounted on a floating vessel, which has...

Predicting scale effects on floating offshore wind turbines

Floating wind turbines are becoming fashionable within the Renewable Energy world. In the last years MARIN has been involved in an increasing number of projects for the offshore wind industry. The complete simulation of a full-scale free-floating wind turbine under waves and winds using viscous-flow (Unsteady-Reynolds-Averaged-Navier-Stokes...