Advances in Offshore Wind Power Systems: Design, Operation and Maintenance
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 December 2024 | Viewed by 160
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fixed/floating offshore structures; development of offshore structural analysis program (X-SEA); development of CAD-embedded pre/post processor
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Offshore locations possess higher potential and less-constraining sources of wind energy compared to the onshore locations. In order to ensure the feasibility, viability, safety and serviceability of an offshore wind farm, an engineer needs to select the proper foundations for wind turbines and to develop feasible models at the design stage. The selection should be based on water depth, seabed conditions, installation equipment and supply chains. There are three common fixed types of offshore wind foundations: monopile, tripod and jacket support structures. A floating structure with turbines is anchored to the seabed through cables. It can be installed in deeper waters compared to traditional fixed offshore wind power, providing relatively more flexibility in site selection
Large-scale offshore wind farms are difficult to access easily, making immediate response to on-site situations challenging. Therefore, a systematic management system is necessary for installation and maintenance due to these access difficulties.
For this Special Issue, we invite authors to contribute their latest research on offshore wind farms, with topics including, but not limited to, the following:
- Innovative concept design and technology;
- Soil foundation and mooring system;
- Aero-hydro-servo-elastic coupled analysis;
- Design code;
- Behavior of floating offshore structures;
- Diffraction/radiation analysis of floating offshore;
- Offshore wind installation, operations, monitoring and maintenance;
- Structural and mechanical aspects of offshore wind support structures;
- Electrical engineering of wind power;
- Offshore concrete material;
- Integrated load analysis of offshore wind turbine;
- Drivetrain dynamics;
- Field measurement and model test;
- Wind energy resource assessment.
Prof. Dr. Ki-Du Kim
Prof. Dr. Goangseup Zi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fixed offshore wind turbine
- floating offshore wind turbine
- dynamics of offshore structures
- aero-hydro-servo-elastic coupled analysis
- design code
- mooring system
- diffraction/radiation analysis
- offshore wind installation, operations, monitoring and maintenance
- offshore structural finite element analysis
