Experimental study of dynamic response of passive flapping hydrofoil in regular wave

The hydrofoil harnesses wave energy and converts it into thrust. In this paper, we present the results of the first experimental study investigating the dynamic behavior of a fully passive foil with spring-loaded pitch and heave in regular waves. Our study shows that the real-time load signal is multi-harmonic with strong superposition,...

A low-fidelity model for the dynamic analysis of full-lattice wind support structures

This work aims to develop a low-fidelity model for a lattice support structure for offshore wind applications. The proposed low-fidelity model consists of a sequence of regular Timoshenko beams, each of them characterized by homogenized mechanical and mass properties representative of the single bays of the reference space-frame structure....

Preference-based service life design of floating wind structures

Floating wind farms are a promising solution for offshore wind energy production in deep waters. However, the design optimisation process of these farms is difficult due to their complex and multidisciplinary nature. Furthermore, current optimisation methods: 1) ignore and/or provide no insight into the dynamic interplay between the preference...

μCT scans permeability computation with an unfitted boundary method to improve coarsening accuracy

Flow simulations on porous media, reconstructed from Micro-Computerised Tomography (μCT) scans, is becoming a common tool to compute the permeability of rocks. Still, some conditions need to be met to obtain accurate results. Only if the sample size is equal or larger than the Representative Elementary Volume will the computed effective...

A monolithic finite element formulation for the hydroelastic analysis of very large floating structures

In this work we present a novel monolithic Finite Element method for the hydroelastic analysis of very large floating structures (VLFS) with arbitrary shapes that is stable, energy conserving, and overcomes the need of an iterative algorithm. The new formulation enables a fully monolithic solution of the linear free-surface flow, described by...