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Koppenol, Boy (author), Cheng, Zhengshun (author), Gao, Zhen (author), Ferreira, Carlos (author), Moan, T (author)This paper presents a comparison of two state-of-the-art codes that are capable of modelling floating vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) in fully coupled time-domain simulations, being the HAWC2 by DTU and the SIMO-RIFLEX-AC code by NTNU/MARINTEK. The comparative study focusses on the way aerodynamics, hydrodynamics and structural dynamics are...conference paper 2017