Functional requirements for the weis toolset to enable controls codesign of floating offshore wind turbines

Jason Jonkman, Alan Wright, Garrett Barter, Matthew Hall, James Allison, Daniel R. Herber

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Abstract

The goal of the new Wind Energy with Integrated Servocontrol (WEIS) toolset under development is to provide the offshore wind industry and research communities with an opensource, user-friendly, flexible tool to enable true controls codesign (CCD) of the physical design of a floating offshore wind turbine together with the controller. WEIS will use a multifidelity library of models built on the foundations of WISDEM® and OpenFAST (formerly known as FAST). This paper presents the WEIS development plan, including the functional requirements of WEIS (including improvements to WISDEM and OpenFAST) together with associated rationale for their establishment and a qualitative description of the modeling approaches that will be implemented to address these functional requirements. The development of WEIS is a project under the Aerodynamic Turbines Lighter and Afloat with Nautical Technologies and Integrated Servo-control program funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the ASME 2021 3rd International Offshore Wind Technical Conference, IOWTC 2021
PublisherAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
ISBN (Electronic)9780791884768
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
EventASME 2021 3rd International Offshore Wind Technical Conference, IOWTC 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: Feb 16 2021Feb 17 2021

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ASME 2021 3rd International Offshore Wind Technical Conference, IOWTC 2021

Conference

ConferenceASME 2021 3rd International Offshore Wind Technical Conference, IOWTC 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period2/16/212/17/21

Keywords

  • Controls Co-Design (CCD)
  • Floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT)
  • OpenFAST
  • WEIS
  • WISDEM
  • functional requirements

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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