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Power output of turbines mounted on tension-leg platforms subjected to fully developed ocean gravity waves
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge TN 37831, USA
Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville TN 37920, USA
Matthew Norman
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge TN 37831, USA
Stuart Slattery
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge TN 37831, USA
Lawrence Cheung
Sandia National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, USA
Yihan Liu
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
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A comparison between the power generated by a 5 MW turbine mounted on a tension-leg platform and subjected to fully developed ocean wave movements, and the same platform/turbine not subjected to ocean motions shows that these wave motions have little effect on time-average power output over a large wind speed range.
A comparison between the power generated by a 5 MW turbine mounted on a tension-leg platform and...
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