Preference-based service life design of floating wind structures
H. J. van Heukelum (Royal Boskalis Westminster)
A.C. Steenbrink (Royal Boskalis Westminster)
O. Colomes (TU Delft - Offshore Engineering)
Ruud Binnekamp (TU Delft - Real Estate Management)
A. Rogier M. Wolfert (TU Delft - Engineering Structures)
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Abstract
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-dominated management domain and the object-performance-dominated engineering domain; 2) are limited to evaluating potentially sub-optimal design alternatives; 3) contain fundamental aggregation modelling errors; 4) do not return a single optimal design point. This paper presents an optimisation framework that overcomes these shortcomings and enables truly integrative multi-objective design optimisation. It includes a surrogate model that interacts with the wind turbine simulation tool OpenFAST to enable preliminary design of the structure’s mooring system. Applied to a demonstration project and validated against real projects in a maritime contractor environment, the workflow shows improvements in tender performance and added value over single-sided cost optimisations.
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