A comparison of two fully coupled codes for integrated dynamic analysis of floating vertical axis wind turbines

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...

DP safety for offshore drilling and well intervention vessels

Combination of global still-water and wave load effects for a reliability-based design of Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessels