Articles | Volume 10, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-1211-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-1211-2025
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02 Jul 2025
Research article |  | 02 Jul 2025

Experimental validation of parked loads for a floating vertical axis wind turbine: wind–wave basin tests

Md. Sanower Hossain and D. Todd Griffith

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sandialabs/CACTUS CACTUS (Code for Axial and Cross-Flow TUrbine Simulation) https://github.com/sandialabs/CACTUS

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The document presents an experimental study on the parked loads of floating vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) in a wind and wave basin, focusing on the effects of wind speed, solidity, and floating platform dynamics. Findings show that higher wind speed and higher solidity generally increase the parked loads, while a floating platform introduces additional effects due to tilting. A semi-numerical model was also presented to predict the parked loads, which helps enhance VAWT design.
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