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NORCOWE Science Meet Industry Bergen
PREDICTIONS OF WAVE FORCES ON
JACKET FOR WIND TURBINES
8th of November 2016 Tron Solberg
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Agenda
• Objective
• Acona Flow Technology (AFT)
• Norcowe projects
• Wave channel experiments
• Jacket geometry
• Wave elevation
• Wave loads
• Concluding remarks
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• Develop a reasonably validated CFD
model for wave forces on marine
structures including wave slamming
Objective
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Acona Flow Technology
• One of Norway’s most senior environment
within flow modelling and simulation services
• 3 out of 8 have PhD
• 18 years average industrial experience
• Independent consultancy services within:
– Blowout & wellkill studies
– Flow assurance
– Computational fluid dynamics
• State-of-the art simulation softwares
• Powerful simulation cluster
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Blowout Contingency Planning
30" Conductor
197 m MD / TVD RKB
Seabed 137 m RKB
8 1/2" OH TD 2082 MD / 2082 m TVD RKB
RKB-MSL 22m
Drilling
BOP
Sealevel
Intersection
1699 m TVD RKB
9 5/8" liner
1699 m MD / TVD RKB
13 ⅜"csg
1200 m MD / TVD RKB
20" csg
600 m MD / TVD RKB
Top Shetland:
1699 m TVD RKB
TOL
1150 m MD / TVD RKB
Top Draupne:
1882 m TVD RKB
Top Basement:
1933 m TVD RKB
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Environment Risk Assessement
• Stochastic oil drift simulations (~10 000)
• Resolution down to 50 m
• Environmental resource data (e.g. Birds)
• Overlap analysis
• Between each oil simulation and the resource (birds)
• Statistics for:
• Relative population loss
• Restitution time for population
• Probability maps for spill at
location
Bird
data Oil data
Oil - bird
overlap
OIL
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Wind turbine -
Wind/wave
interaction
Subsea cage
hatch
Tidal turbine
Computational Fluid DynamicsMarine engineering applications
Fish farm-
Wave/structure
interaction
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Norcowe projects
Wave-wind interactions and
implications for offshore wind turbinesBreaking wave forces on offshore wind turbine
jackets in shallow water
Siri Kalvig (2014) PhD thesis, UiS
Ongoing PhD work of Jithin Jose at Uis
Wind respons to opposing (left) and aligned (right) swell
Influence of waves on wind turbines
Close collaboration with University of Stavanger
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Wave Channel Experiments
• Large Wave Flume
– FZK-GWK Hannover
• Wave channel data
– (LxWxD)=(300,5,7) m
– Height plateau 2.3 m
– Slope 1:10
– SWL 4.3 m
– Jacket 198.37 m downstream
• Measurement equipments
– Force transducers
– Wave gauges
– Velocity gauges
Wave height Wave period
[m] [s]
1.6 5.2
1.7 5.2
1.8 5.2
1.6 5.55
1.7 5.55
1.8 5.55
1.6 4.9
1.7 4.9
1.8 4.9
1.6 4.6
1.7 4.6
1.8 4.6
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Jacket Geometry – 1:8 scale
Front Left Right
2250 2250 2250
2000
2710
SWL (4300)
MAX (5675)
140
140
Dimensions in [mm]
EL (2300)
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Wave Elevation
Breaking position: Behind the last leg
H=1.6 m
T= 5.2 s
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Wave Elevation
Non-linear waves
H~1.6 m
T~5.2 s
Plunging breakers
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Fx
Fz
Fy
Wave Loads - Total
D MF F F
Non-breaking waves:
Morrison equation
Breaking waves:
D M SF F F F
Slamming force
20S w S b bF t C RC
Drag:D w DdF C u u dz
Inertia: 2
M w M
dudF C R dz
d z
Measurements: First peak larger than second
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Wave Loads – Front vertical member Max slamming force on V1
V1
B1
B2
H=1.7m
T=5.55s
Total force on jacket
Local forces on transducer V1aa
b
b
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Concluding remarks
• CFD model for predicting wave loads on offshore wind-turbine jacket established
• Numerical local force transducer developed
• Able to predict local slamming coefficients
• Preliminary results are promising compared to measurements
• Detailed comparison with measurements remains
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