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Research article
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08 Jan 2024
Research article |
| 08 Jan 2024
| 08 Jan 2024
A digital twin solution for floating offshore wind turbines validated using a full-scale prototype
Emmanuel Branlard
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401, USA
Jason Jonkman
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401, USA
Cameron Brown
Stiesdal Offshore A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark
Jiatian Zhang
Stiesdal Offshore A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark
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In this work, we implement, verify, and validate a physics-based digital twin solution applied to a floating offshore wind turbine. The article present methods to obtain reduced-order models of floating wind turbines. The models are used to form a digital twin which combines measurements from the TetraSpar prototype (a full-scale floating offshore wind turbine) to estimate signals that are not typically measured.
In this work, we implement, verify, and validate a physics-based digital twin solution applied...
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