Constant Wind Analyses on Eight Floating Wind Turbines

This work aims to analyze the responses of eight floating wind turbines. From this perspective, this paper will compare the response offset regarding the motions of the six degrees of freedom of the respective floating wind turbines. The applied forces these analyses consider mainly come from constant wind forces applied on the wind turbines’ blades, as well as forces from waves and currents. Different response offset values are considered and compared regarding the different constant wind speeds, as well as the different velocities of waves and currents. This paper also considers a wide range of innovative references related to floating wind turbine analyses and software. Validation and verification studies are left for future work due to the complexity of the data provided in this paper. However, some comparisons will be made between the obtained analysis results and some external references. These references may have floating wind turbines with different wind and wave environmental conditions, power capacities, and dimensional characteristics.