A comparison of two fully coupled codes for integrated dynamic analysis of floating vertical axis wind turbines

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Delft University of Technology A comparison of two fully coupled codes for integrated dynamic analysis of floating vertical axis wind turbines Koppenol, Boy; Cheng, Zhengshun; Gao, Zhen; Ferreira, Carlos; Moan, T DOI 1.116/j.egypro.217.1.352 Publication date 217 Document Version Final published version Published in 14th Deep Sea Offshore Wind R&D Conference, EERA DeepWind'217 Citation (APA) Koppenol, B., Cheng, Z., Gao, Z., Ferreira, C., & Moan, T. (217). A comparison of two fully coupled codes for integrated dynamic analysis of floating vertical axis wind turbines. In J. O. G. Tande, T. Kvamsdal, & M. Muskulus (Eds.), 14th Deep Sea Offshore Wind R&D Conference, EERA DeepWind'217 (Vol. 137, pp. 28229). (Energy Procedia; Vol. 137). Elsevier. https://doi.org/1.116/j.egypro.217.1.352 Important note To cite this publication, please use the final published version (if applicable). Please check the document version above. Copyright Other than for strictly personal use, it is not permitted to download, forward or distribute the text or part of it, without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), unless the work is under an open content license such as Creative Commons. Takedown policy Please contact us and provide details if you believe this document breaches copyrights. We will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. This work is downloaded from Delft University of Technology. For technical reasons the number of authors shown on this cover page is limited to a maximum of 1.

Available online at www.sciencedirect.com ScienceDirect Energy Procedia 137 (217) 282 29 www.elsevier.com/locate/procedia 14th Deep Sea Offshore Wind R&D Conference, EERA DeepWind'217, 182 January 217, Trondheim, Norway A comparison of two fully coupled codes for integrated dynamic analysis of floating vertical axis wind turbines Boy Koppenol a, Zhengshun Cheng b,c, *, Zhen Gao c, Carlos Simão Ferreira d, Torgeir Moan c a Ventolines BV, Duit 15, Emmeloord 835BB, The Netherlands b State Key Laboratory of Hydraulic Engineering Simulation and Safety, Tianjin University, Tianjin 372, China c Department of Marine Technology, AMOS and CeSOS, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway d Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Delft, The Netherlands Abstract This paper presents a comparison of two stateoftheart codes that are capable of modelling floating vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) in fully coupled timedomain simulations, being the by DTU and the code by NTNU/MARINTEK. The comparative study focusses on the way aerodynamics, hydrodynamics and structural dynamics are treated for DeepWind s 5MW Darrieus rotor mounted on a modified OC3 spar platform. The relevant modelling differences are described, followed by an introduction to the spar VAWT concept and selected load cases. Isolation of the aerodynamic model is achieved using an equivalent rigid landbased VAWT in steady windonly environments. The added complexity in SIMO RIFLEXAC s aerodynamic model has shown to increase aerodynamic torque at tipspeed ratios above 2.5. Differences in the hydrodynamic and structural models were brought forward through fully coupled analyses in turbulent wind and irregular wave climates. It is found that the simplified mooring system in introduces a 2P yaw response (1P in ), stronger motion coupling in surgeheave and a largely reduced mooring line tension since the dynamics of mooring lines are not considered. Indications are given that a higher tower mode is excited by 4P aerodynamic loading; an effect that is significantly stronger in. 217 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Peerreview under responsibility of SINTEF Energi AS. Keywords: floating vertical axis wind turbine; codetocode comparison; fully coupled simulations * Corresponding author. Tel.: +47735964; fax: +4773595528. Email address: zhengshun.cheng@ntnu.no 1876612 217 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Peerreview under responsibility of SINTEF Energi AS. 1.116/j.egypro.217.1.352

Boy Koppenol et al. / Energy Procedia 137 (217) 282 29 283 1. Introduction An everincreasing demand for electricity pushes the wind energy industry to deep waters that favour floating concepts. Floating horizontal axis wind turbines (HAWTs) are facing the challenges of high cost of energy; as an alternative, floating vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) have the potential to reduce the cost of energy and are thus of great interest. The VAWT was popular in NorthAmerica during the 197s and 198s, in this period considerable efforts were made to develop the Darrieus rotor [1]. Now, interest in floating VAWTs emerges for its simple design, low center of gravity and independence to wind direction. Potential benefits are reduced installation and O&M costs, blade manufacturing through the costeffective pultrusion technique and possibly increased power efficiency [2]. In contrast with the conventional HAWT, the vertical axis rotor has a three dimensional swept volume that extends in the streamwise direction as well, which makes that a blade crosses the incoming wind flow in both the upstream and downstream rotor half. The supporting platform should provide sufficient buoyancy and stability, which leads to a large structure with significant contribution from hydrodynamics. The mooring system is for station keeping and acts as a relatively soft spring compared to structural stiffness. Whilst our understanding of hydrodynamics and structural dynamics is fairly developed, VAWT aerodynamics is complex and introduces challenges with respect to load prediction. The floating VAWT system is highly dynamic and requires a fully coupled aerohydroservoelastic simulation tool for accurate analysis. Presently only several publicly available codes have this capability, amongst them are the by DTU [3] and the code by NTNU/MARINTEK [4] that both account for aerodynamics through the Actuator Cylinder (AC) flow theory [5]. The work in this paper consists of a codetocode comparison between and and is split to three parts: (1) demonstrating the general impact of dynamic stall, (2) illustrating the effect of different implementations of the AC flow theory and (3) presenting codetocode differences in the dynamic response of a spar VAWT modelled in unsteady environments. 2. Numerical simulation tools 2.1. Aerodynamics The aerodynamic loads are calculated using the AC flow model originally developed by Madsen [5]. A set of stacked cylinders is used to build the swept volume of the VAWT rotor. For numerical implementation Madsen has suggested a modified linear solution to solve the 2D flow problem of the individual cylinders. The solution that is implemented in contains an additional correction factor k a for the induced velocities, as proposed by Madsen et al. [6]. Cheng et al. [7] further developed the model such that it accounts for the tangential loading term, inclination of blade elements and an additional correction to the induced velocities at higher tipspeed ratios. These developments are implemented in the aerodynamic model of. Hence the two codes correct the induced velocity differently, as highlighted by Fig. 1. Dynamic stall is a phenomenon that occurs when the flow separates from the surface of the blade. For a VAWT it is likely to occur at low tipspeed ratios where the angle of attack changes more rapidly. Research has shown that it is essential to include the effect of dynamic stall for a more accurate prediction of the aerodynamic loads [8]. Due to its significance and hence sensitivity, it is chosen to match s dynamic stall model with the Stig Øye dynamic stall model implemented in. Correction factor () 1.8 1.6 1.4 1.2 1...2.4.6.8 1. Thrust coefficient () Fig. 1. Correction factor k a in the modified linear solutions of the AC flow model.

284 Boy Koppenol et al. / Energy Procedia 137 (217) 282 29 Table 1. Hydrodynamic modelling in and. Morison coefficients are referred to [9]. Spar hull Mooring lines Hydrodynamic model Morison equation Potential flow none Morison equation C d ().6.6 1. C m ().97 Potential flow 1. 2.2. Hydrodynamics The hydrodynamic models in and are quite different in terms of complexity, an overview is given in Table 1. applies a Morisontype model for hydrodynamic loads on the spar. uses a nonlinear spring model for mooring lines, hence no hydrodynamic loads and no inertial loads on the mooring lines are considered. applies a hybrid combination of the potential flow theory and Morison equation [1]. The potential flow model considers added mass, radiation damping, first order wave forces, mean drift forces and secondorder differencefrequency wave forces on the spar floater. Mooring lines in SIMO RIFLEXAC are modelled as finite elements, where Morison s formula is used for hydrodynamic loads. The inertial effect of the mooring lines is considered in addition to the restoring effect. 2.3. Structural dynamics The structural formulations in and SIMORIFLEX are both based on a finite element method with the spar platform modelled as one rigid body. applies a multibody formulation with each body built from Timoshenko beam elements and connected by nonlinear constraints, the mooring lines are simplified by a nonlinear spring model with an additional yaw stiffness to represent the delta lines. Riflex, the structural module in SIMO RIFLEXAC, distinguishes between the blades, tower (and shaft) and the mooring lines. These are respectively modelled as flexible beam elements, axisymmetric beam elements and nonlinear bar elements [1]. The delta lines within the mooring lines are also modelled by nonlinear bar elements. 3. Methodology 3.1. VAWT models The dynamic analyses performed in this study involve the two wind turbine models in Fig. 2, referred to as the landbased VAWT and spar VAWT. The landbased VAWT considered is the 5MW Darrieus rotor developed by Vita [2] in the DeepWind project. The spar VAWT considers the same DeepWind rotor mounted on a ballastmodified OC3 spar floater [11]. Fig. 2. The considered wind turbine models: (left) landbased VAWT; (right) spar VAWT.

Boy Koppenol et al. / Energy Procedia 137 (217) 282 29 285 Table 2. First six fundamental eigenmodes and eigenfrequencies of the landbased VAWT computed by Abaqus, and Riflex. Tower sideside Tower foreaft Flatwise symmetric Flatwise asymmetric Leadlag asymmetric Leadlag symmetric Abaqus [12].27 Hz.223 Hz.27 Hz.272 Hz.342 Hz.421 Hz.25 Hz.222 Hz.277 Hz.278 Hz.372 Hz.475 Hz Riflex [12].24 Hz.22 Hz.268 Hz.269 Hz.352 Hz.428 Hz For understanding the landbased VAWT characteristics a modal analysis is done in, Riflex and Abaqus. This reveals information about the eigenmodes and eigenfrequencies, but also about the structural models of the numerical tools. Abaqus is considered most accurate and it can be used as benchmark for deviations between and Riflex. The six fundamental eigenmodes and corresponding eigenfrequencies are presented in Table 2. There can be distinguished between the tower, blade flatwise and blade leadlag modes. In general, the eigenfrequencies between the codes agree well, except for the stiffer leadlag modes where the structural formulation appears more critical. The modal analysis presented here considers a stationary rotor, hence the phenomena of centrifugal stiffening (flatwise) and gyroscopic effects (tower, leadlag) are not included [12]. Where the landbased VAWT assumes a rigid connection to the ground, the spar VAWT is held in place by its catenary mooring system. The natural periods of the platform motions are obtained through decay tests and summarized in Table 3. The natural periods estimated by and are fairly close and the difference with respect to heave motion is due to the different modeling of mooring lines. The corresponding damping ratio in terms of surge and pitch motions are close too; however, large differences are observed in that of heave and yaw, which are owning to the different mooring line modeling in these two numerical codes. Table 3. Natural periods and damping ratios of spar VAWT computed by and. Natural period Damping ratio Surge (s) Heave (s) Pitch (s) Yaw (s) Surge () Heave () Pitch () Yaw () 129. 27. 34.6 7.4.78.46.37.94 129.4 32. 34.5 7.6.77.92.47.49 3.2. Load cases The offshore site that is considered in this study is located in the northern North Sea, a potential candidate for floating wind turbines off the Norwegian coast due to its large water depths. Johanessen et al. [13] correlated the windwave environment (wind speed, significant wave height and peak period) in this area using measurements taken at Statoil s oil platform Vestlefrikk. The codetocode comparison is performed for a set of predefined environmental conditions. The challenge in designing a set of test configurations is isolating the different models. The three load cases are detailed hereafter and summarized in Table 4. In all load cases wind shear is modelled as normal wind profile (NWP) and the controller keeps rotor speed approximately constant above rated wind speed of 14 m/s. The directions of wind and waves are collinear and along the spar s surge direction. Simulations with multiple seeds are grouped for statistical and spectral analyses. Load case 1 (LC1) uses a rigid landbased VAWT to illustrate the effect dynamic stall over a range of wind speeds. For this purpose, LC1 is simulated in with and without the Stig Øye dynamic stall model.

Boy Koppenol et al. / Energy Procedia (217) Boy Koppenol et al. / Energy Procedia 137 (217) 282 29 286 5 Table 4. Load cases LC1, LC2 and LC3 for the codetocode comparison between and. uhub (m/s) Hs (m) Tp (s) Turb. model Seeds Sim. length Dynamic stall VAWT configuration LC1.1 / LC1.2 1 22 16 s None / Stig Øye Landbased, rigid LC2.1 / LC2.2 / LC2.3 8 / 14 / 2 4 s None Landbased, rigid LC3.1 8 2.55 9.86 NTM 3 4 s Stig Øye Spar, elastic LC3.2 14 3.62 1.29 NTM 3 4 s Stig Øye Spar, elastic LC3.3 2 4.87 1.86 NTM 3 4 s Stig Øye Spar, elastic Load case 2 (LC2) simulates the landbased VAWT in a steady wind environment. The structural elasticity is stiff and dynamic stall is not considered. These steps are taken to isolate the aerodynamic model in and SIMORIFLEXAC to the extent that is possible. Three different wind speeds are considered, which allows us to compare the functionality of the aerodynamic models at a high, moderate and low tipspeed ratio. Load case 3 (LC3) compares the fully coupled aerohydroservoelastic capabilities of and SIMORIFLEXAC. This is done by simulating the spar VAWT in a mild, medium and severe unsteady environment. Here dynamic analyses can be done only in terms of statistics and power spectra, because the stochasticity in the turbulent wind and irregular waves cannot be matched throughout the codes. The (statistical) agreement between the environmental conditions has been verified, and a seed sensitivity study showed that the order of differences also occur between the individual seeds. 4. Results and discussion 4.1. Effect of dynamic stall (LC1) Simulating the landbased VAWT in a stepped wind environment allows us to study the effect of dynamic stall at various tipspeed ratios. The Stig Øye model disregards the effect on airfoil drag and hence only the lift component is affected, which Fig. 3 presents for the midpoint of blade 1. The loops present different tipspeed ratios at which the VAWT operates, with a decreasing tipspeed ratio for increasing angle of attack range. Data points off the lines reflect the transient response after each wind step. The dynamic stall effect on the lift coefficient is strongest at larger angles of attack, and becomes significant below tipspeed ratios of approximately 2.5 for this configuration. The lift coefficient directly affects the calculation of lift force per unit length on the blade elements. In the upwind rotor half (positive angle of attack) lift force is much reduced from the effect of flow separation at lower tipspeed ratios. Consequently, the downwind rotor half experiences a higher inflow velocity and therefore increased lift. To illustrate the difference with HAWT aerodynamics the rate of change in angle of attack can be observed. At the wind speed of 22 m/s (outer loop) the angle of attack at midblade changes from 35 to +4 in half a rotational period or 5.7 s, whereas the change is for a HAWT in a uniform wind field. dynamic stall: None dynamic stall: Stig Oye 2. 2 1.5 15 Lift force (kn/m) Lift coefficient () 2.5 1..5..5 1. 1.5 2.5 2.5 1 5 5 1 15 2 4 3 2 1 1 2 Angle of attack (deg) 3 4 25 4 3 2 1 1 2 Angle of attack (deg) 3 4 Fig. 3. Lift coefficient (left) and lift force (right) at midblade with tipspeed ratio decreasing stepwise from 3.5 to 1.5 in at LC1.

Boy Koppenol et al. / Energy Procedia (217) Boy Koppenol et al. / Energy Procedia 137 (217) 282 29 6 287 Table 5. Average thrust and power coefficient for the landbased VAWT at LC2 in and. CT () Cp () LC2.1.661.765.389.465 LC2.2.456.457.319.324 LC2.3.245.245.124.126 4.2. Comparison of aerodynamic model (LC2) The aerodynamic model in and is isolated by placing the landbased VAWT in a steady wind field, this narrows the system down to an equilibrium between aerodynamic loads, rotor inertia and generator torque. At the low wind speed of LC2.1 the Darrieus rotor is in a region where Cp is optimized through a generator torque algorithm, whereas rotor speed is constant at the medium and high wind speed. The rotoraveraged performance coefficients CT and Cp of the VAWT at LC2 are presented in Table 5. Fig. 1 addressed that induced velocities are corrected differently between the codes for CT.5. Table 5 shows that this condition is reached only at LC2.1 for both codes. If dynamic stall effects were considered, then increased aerodynamic loads could potentially subject the induced velocities at LC2.2 to a different correction factor ka as well. To further explain the different performance, the aerodynamic torque is presented in Fig. 4. The time series at LC2.1 reveal that the torque has lower minima and higher maxima in. Torque minima occur when the VAWT rotor is perpendicular to the wind direction. The reduced torque can be related to inclusion of tangential terms in s aerodynamic model, because at this azimuth position the tangential terms are drag forces. The difference in aerodynamic torque maxima are however, a result of the correction factor ka. s larger correction factor at LC2.1 leads to lower inflow velocities in the downwind half of the rotor. 4.3. Comparison of fully coupled capabilities (LC3) hub 4 2 129 1292 1294 1296 1298 13 Time (s) 132 134 Azimuth position (top view) 2 136 138 131 ^^^ u 8 m/s 6 rotates counterclockwise Aerodynamic torque (MNm) Aerodynamic torque (MNm) Dynamic analysis is done for the spar VAWT in unsteady windwave environments to compare the response in and. Platform motions are excited by aerodynamic and hydrodynamic loads, whereas the resulting offsets are counteracted by a restoring force from the mooring system and hydrostatic pressure differences. The platform response is described through statistical and spectral analysis in Fig. 5. Mean offset and standard deviation of all platform motions are lower in, also for the degrees of freedom not presented here. The heave response indicates motion coupling with surge in both codes, but stronger in due to a shifted natural frequency. The pitch response is stronger in, which could be a result from applying ±6.6 ±6.5 ±6.3 ±6.3 15 1 5 ±1.4 ±1.8 LC 2.1 LC 2.2 LC 2.3 Fig. 4. Aerodynamic torque for the landbased VAWT: (left) time series at LC2.1; (right) mean and one standard deviation at LC2.

288 Boy Koppenol et al. / Energy Procedia 137 (217) 282 29 Heave (m).4.4.8 1.2 ±.7 ±.15 ±.15 ±.22 ±.28 ±.4 LC 3.1 LC 3.2 LC 3.3 Pitch (deg) 8 6 4 2 ±1.7 ±.85 ±.84 ±.68 ±.55 ±.41 LC 3.1 LC 3.2 LC 3.3 Yaw (deg) 3 6 9 12 15 ±.46 ±.34 ±1.18 ±1.31 ±1.11 ±1.79 LC 3.1 LC 3.2 LC 3.3 S(n 3 ) (deg 2 s).6.4.2 surge heave wave..5.1.15.2.25 Frequency (Hz) S(n 5 ) (deg 2 s) 4 2 wind pitch..5.1.15.2.25 Frequency (Hz) S(n 6 ) (deg 2 s) 15 1 5 wind 1P 2P..5.1.15.2.25 Frequency (Hz) Fig. 5. Platform motions: (top) mean value and one standard deviation at LC3; (bottom) power spectral densities at LC3.2. Morison equation on the spar hull. At last, the yaw responds at the 1P and 2P frequency in and, respectively. The yaw natural frequency may have shifted due to different mooring system modelling, similar as to heave. The mooring system provides stiffness for station keeping and loads are transferred through mooring line tension. A time series and statistical analysis of this tension in line 1 (see Fig. 2 for definition) is presented in Fig. 6. The time series reveal that the response is governed by lowfrequent surge motion, however, also shows a vibrationlike 1P response from its platform yaw. The tension in line 1 is lower in for all load cases and could reflect the absence of gravityinduced loads. Additionally, the absence of hydrodynamic loads on s mooring system may also contribute to the lower standard deviations. To get insight in the frequency content of aerodynamic loads from turbulent wind, spectral analysis of aerodynamic torque is presented in Fig. 7 (left). Characteristic for the twobladed VAWT is that aerodynamics are governed by 2P loads, however, the codes reveal their differences at other frequencycontent. finds additional contribution at the 1P and 3P frequencies, this could relate to its 1P yaw response. Both codes contain peaks at the 4P frequency, which seems to excite the first asymmetric leadlag mode. The structural models are compared through foreaft bending moment at the tower base. The power spectrum in Fig. 7 (right) shows interesting differences with respect to platform pitch, wave loads and a structural mode. Here larger pitch offset or tower tilt leads to larger contributions from gravity. s tower base feels the waves more strongly, which indicates that its hydrodynamic model calculates higher wave loading than SIMORIFLEX AC s potential flow model. Dominant 2P responses are found in the power spectra of foreaft bending moment 1 1 ±46 Mooring line 1 tension (kn) 8 6 4 2 Mooring line 1 tension (kn) 8 6 4 2 ±43 ±39 ±47 ±35 ±43 1 2 3 4 Time (s) LC 3.1 LC 3.2 LC 3.3 Fig. 6. Tension in mooring line 1: (left) time series at LC3.2; (right) mean and one standard deviation at LC3.

8 Boy Koppenol et al. / Energy Procedia (217) Boy Koppenol et al. / Energy Procedia 137 (217) 282 29 289 S(M aero,torque ) ((MNm) 2 s) 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 wind 1P 2P 3P 4P..1.2.3.4 Frequency (Hz)..1.2.3.4 Frequency (Hz) Fig. 7. Power spectral densities of aerodynamic torque (left) and foreaft tower base bending moment (right) at LC3.2. S(M base,fa ) ((MNm) 2 s) 6 5 4 3 2 1 wind pitch wave 2P tower estimated by and, which are due to 2P aerodynamic loads on the blades. At last, a significant peak is found at.34 Hz only in s spectrum. This hints towards a higher tower mode of the rotorspar combination excited by the 4P frequency of.35 Hz. 5. Conclusion and outlook This paper performs a codetocode comparison between and for modelling the aerodynamics, hydrodynamics and structural dynamics of a VAWT mounted on a spar floater. Load cases in both steady and unsteady environments are designed to separately study the effect of dynamic stall, implementation of the AC flow theory and the fully coupled aerohydroservoelastic capabilities. The effect of dynamic stall is studied using the Stig Øye model and becomes significant at tipspeed ratios below 2.5. Here flow separation in the upwind rotor half reduces lift force, and consequently the downwind rotor half experiences increases inflow velocities. The numerical tools solution to the AC flow problem contains a different induced velocity correction and inclusion of tangential terms, this has lead to calculate larger aerodynamic torque at wind speeds where C T.5. Fully coupled analyses with the spar VAWT brought forward that s nonphysical mooring system causes larger platform offsets, stronger surgeheave coupling and a natural frequency shift in both heave and yaw. The pitch response and foreaft tower base bending moments in experience larger contributions from hydrodynamic loading, whereas mooring line tension is lower due to the absence of selfweight and wave loads. Regarding the flexible spar VAWT rotor, the first blade leadlag mode is excited close to the 4P frequency. also shows a significant contribution at this frequency content in the foreaft tower bending moments. For future work it would be interesting to investigate the implication of the simplified nonlinear spring mooring model in. Free decay tests could reveal differences about natural frequencies, whilst hydrodynamic loading analyses detail about the absence of wave loading on the mooring lines. Additionally, further understanding of the.34 Hz tower base response in can be gained by modal analysis of the rotorspar combination. Acknowledgements The authors would like to appreciate the support from the Department of Marine Technology, Centre for Ships and Ocean Structures (CeSOS) and Centre for Autonomous Marine Operations and Systems (AMOS), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. The second author would also like to appreciate the support from State Key Laboratory of Hydraulic Engineering Simulation and Safety (HESS171), Tianjin University, China.

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