Offshore wind turbines are always subjected to highly varying aerodynamic and
hydrodynamic loads which dictate the design phase of the wind turbine substructures. The …

The objective of the present work is to investigate wave run-up around a monopile subjected
to regular waves inside a numerical wave flume using the Computational Fluid Dynamics …

The flow-field around the rotor blades of an FOWT may be significantly influenced by the six
rigid-body motions of the floating platform via the blade–wake interaction. Therefore, the …

In the design phase of a floating offshore wind turbine, the influence of aero-hydro-structure
dynamic coupling needs to be fully considered to yield reliable analysis results. In this study …

Complex flow around floating structures is a highly nonlinear problem, and it is a typical
feature in ship and ocean engineering. Traditional experimental methods and potential flow …

Many numerical methods based on potential-flow theory have been used to analyze the
hydrodynamic effect of floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT). However, they cannot directly …

The purpose of the present study is to evaluate the performance of different turbulence
models for predicting the interaction between breaking waves and a vertical cylinder based …

We present a non-iterative algorithm, FloatStepper, for coupling the motion of a rigid body
and an incompressible fluid in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. The purpose …

Breaking wave impact on a vertical cylinder in shallow waters is investigated numerically
with the two-phase flow computational fluid dynamics model REEF3D. The model is based …

Accurate prediction of the dynamic responses of the floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT)
under the blade pitch motion is quite challenging because of the strong nonlinear effects. In …