ImproveFLOW SF Extention

Offentlig prosjektsammendrag

Norway has committed to cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 50-55 percent by 2030 and by at least 80 percent by 2050. Reaching these goals will require a transition in energy carriers, from petroleum to renewable resources. Onshore and fixed offshore wind have transitioned to become a mainstream source of electricity over the past decades. However, there is increasing resistance in local communities against onshore wind farms because of environmental impact and loss of natural habitats. It is therefore imperative to find alternatives to onshore wind farms that are more environmentally friendly and have a smaller visual footprint. This project aims to significantly advance and improve the accuracy, security and efficiency of prediction methods and design processes for floating wind farms by adding modern, advanced multi-diciplinary 3D visualization capabilities and collaborative workflows to a new Floating Offshore Wind Software platform. The project is running in parallel with an R&D project funded by the Research Council, ImproveFLOW. The underlying idea is to extend and further develop state-of-the-art cloud based visualization technologies and customize and apply these technologies towards wind resource assessment and aero-hydro-servo-elastic analysis. A first challenge for energy production is that floating turbines are subjected to interaction effects which vary with both wind and wave conditions. To visualize these interaction effects is of prime importance to understand how the interaction effects influence on the energy production. A second challenge is related to the need to run a coupled analysis of the floater and the turbine in a secure manner. Provision of a workflow that allow accurate and secure simulation and visualization of the coupled solution which satisfies IP concerns and delivers a framework for analysis, data exchange and collaboration is a key element to overcome this challenge.