Prediction of Short-Term Extreme Response of Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Under Storm Condition

Abstract To predict the short-term motion responses of floating offshore wind turbine under extreme wind-wave excitation, a numerical model based on the two-phase flow finite volume method was developed. In this paper, uni-directional irregular waves composed of 100 cosine waves with equal frequency interval were simulated by the wave forcing technique, resulting in the measured spectrum in accordance with the target spectrum. Then, a 100-seconds wave segment containing the maximum wave height was selected for fully coupled dynamic analysis of the OC4-DeepCwind system in CFD, and the results were compared with those of FAST under the same wind and wave sea state. It was found that the motion responses of heave and pitch motion responses predicted by two methods agree well. The second-order slow drift force generated in CFD led to the difference in surge motion. The predicted sway, roll, and yaw motions by these two methods were also compared. In addition, significant differences between two methods’ predictions on mooring tension were found.