Integrated Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics platform for modelling marine renewable energy technologies and moored floating structures validated using experimental modelling Ghent University
Moored floating structures have wide applications in coastal and offshore engineering, such as floating offshore wind turbines and Wave Energy Converters (WECs) from the field of Marine Renewable Energy (MRE). Mooring systems, and in the case of WECs, a controlled power take-off (PTO) represent a considerable part of the total cost of these technologies and influence their dynamics. Hence it is crucial to accurately and cost-efficiently model ...