The project
Nearly all offshore wind turbines are located in relatively shallow water mounted on fixed bottom support structures. These sites have limited high winds and the turbines are usually highly visible – it therefore makes sense to extend wind turbine systems to deeper water. However, fixed bottom support structures are not feasible in deeper water, so it is necessary to explore floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) systems. FOWT using semi-submersible support structures can experience unacceptably large heave, pitch and roll motions in extreme waves which can affect the performance of the turbine and can cause significant damage. This project will evaluate the potential and effectiveness of applying tuned liquid dampers with anti-heave plates to reduce the motions.
Professor Ling Qian - Principal Investigator
Professor Ling Qian is a Professor of Computational Fluid Dynamics and Director (Theme Leader) of Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Flow Analysis (CMMFA) at Manchester Metropolitan University. Over the last 20 years professor Qian has been engaged in research and teaching in computational modelling of water and air flow and its interaction with structures with applications in offshore, ocean and aerospace engineering. Professor Qian has published widely in some of the most reputed journals in the field of computational physics, ocean and coastal engineering e.g., Journal of Computational Physics, Pro Roy Soc A, Inter. J. Num. Methods Eng., Physics of Fluids, Coastal Engineering, Ocean Engineering and Computers and Fluids on topics ranging from the development of novel numerical algorithms to their application to real engineering flow problems.
On-demand video: Supergen ORE Hub Annual Assembly 2022
Professor Ling Qian - Professor of Computational Fluid Dynamics and Director, Manchester Metropolitan University
