Ship&Offshore | Ausgabe 03/2015
How CFD can support the design of offshore wind farms
SIMULATION Offshore wind farms today are being built farther from the coast and in deeper water, requiring holistic approaches and sophisticated design techniques. The following article by Volker Bertram, senior project manager for fluid engineering at DNV GL in Hamburg, examines advanced simulation techniques used to assess aerodynamic and hydrodynamic aspects of components and entire fields of offshore wind farms. The key technique is computational fluid dynamics.