Effect of Rotor Tilt on the Performance of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines

2023

This thesis investigated the tilt loss of FOWT in conjunction with power performance. Consisting of three main parts, where the first calculates the power loss of three turbines influenced by tilt, the next part is the AEP of a three-turbine and a 10x10 turbine farm, and at last, is an investigation of the tilt loss of turbines with different spacing. Two engineering wake models are considered and compared, Bastankhah Gaussian (BG) and Jensen (NOJ). Results showed that choosing the wake model is vital due to the deviation of 6.41% from one of the cases. Further, findings show that when three tribunes are placed in an array and downstream turbines are directly influenced by the wake, the BG …