Dear Colleagues,

To achieve the global net-zero emissions goal, offshore wind energy as a promising source of renewable energy has been attracting extensive attentions and continuous investments. Nowadays, offshore wind turbines are developing fast towards large-sized and deep-water applications, which raises new challenges in technical and economic feasibility. A typical offshore wind turbine is usually a highly integrated and complex energy-harvesting system, which may experience extremely harsh sea conditions. The design and the dynamic analysis of an offshore wind turbine often require multidisciplinary knowledge. From the point of view of safety, the design of an offshore wind turbine needs to be able to survive in extreme weather. On the other hand, from a commercial perspective, efforts are required for cost reduction via the improvement in design and engineering practice. To overcome the challenges and promote the advances in offshore wind turbines, theoretical and technical innovations are needed. This motivates us to propose this Special Issue to publish recent frontier advances in all aspects of offshore wind turbines.

Submissions in various forms including research articles, review papers, short communications, etc., are welcome. Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to the following:

• offshore wind turbine design 
• reliability, failure and cost analysis; transportation
• installation, monitoring and maintenance approaches
• numerical modeling and code validation
• blade element momentum theory
• model and prototype testing
• wind turbine foundations and mooring system
• control and optimization methods
• offshore wind measurements
• aeroelastic/seismic/structural/fatigue analysis
• structural safety monitor
• machine learning applications 
• digital twin
• computational fluid dynamics

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Lei Tan
Dr. Shuang Chang
Dr. Yan Li
Guest Editors

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• offshore wind turbine
• dynamic analysis
• hydrodynamics
• aerodynamics
• mooring dynamics
• numerical modeling
• physical model testing
• floating structures