Computational Fluid Dynamics of a Floating Offshore Wind Turbine using OpenFOAM: Validation against numerical and experimental results of a fully nonlinear Navier-Stokes/Volume-of-fluid numerical wave tank for the simulation of fluid-structure interaction of a floating offshore wind turbine

Floating Offshore Wind Energy represents an enormous potential for the future of wind energy and will play a pivotal role in the global energy transition. However, important technical challenges still need to be overcome by the industry regarding the standardization of processes like transportation, floating substructure concept, and supply...