Performance study of the QuLAF pre-design model for a 10&thinsp;MW floating wind turbine

Madsen, Freddy J.; Pegalajar-Jurado, Antonio; Bredmose, Henrik

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-4-527-2019

Articles | Volume 4, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-4-527-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-4-527-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 4, issue 3

Research article

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23 Sep 2019

Research article |

| 23 Sep 2019

Performance study of the QuLAF pre-design model for a 10 MW floating wind turbine

Freddy J. Madsen, Antonio Pegalajar-Jurado, and Henrik Bredmose

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Final revised paper (published on 23 Sep 2019)
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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Reviews', Anonymous Referee #1, 21 May 2019
- AC1: 'Reply to referee #1', Freddy J. Madsen, 19 Jul 2019
RC2: 'Review of "Performance study of the QuLAF pre-design model for a 10MW floating wind turbine"', Maurizio Collu, 11 Jun 2019
- AC2: 'Reply to referee #2', Freddy J. Madsen, 19 Jul 2019
RC3: 'attachment', Tor Anders Nygaard, 19 Jun 2019
- AC3: 'Reply to referee #3', Freddy J. Madsen, 19 Jul 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Freddy J. Madsen on behalf of the Authors (19 Jul 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (31 Jul 2019) by Gerard J.W. van Bussel

AR by Freddy J. Madsen on behalf of the Authors (09 Aug 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (13 Aug 2019) by Gerard J.W. van Bussel

ED: Publish as is (20 Aug 2019) by Jakob Mann (Chief editor)

AR by Freddy J. Madsen on behalf of the Authors (23 Aug 2019)

Short summary

This paper presents a comparison study of the simplified model QuLAF (Quick Load Analysis of Floating wind turbines) and FAST for the planar version of various design load cases, in order to investigate how accurate results can be obtained from this simplified model. The overall analysis shows that QuLAF is generally very good at estimating the bending moment at the tower base and the floater motions, whereas the nacelle acceleration is generally underpredicted.