Offshore Wind Turbine Platform Analysis and Design
Explore design alternatives for safe, cost effective floating wind farm structures with OpenWindPower Floating Platform. Save time with comprehensive automated tools for determining hydrodynamic, aerodynamic and structural loading. Reduce runtime by distributing MOSES frequency and time domain analyses across multiple cores, either on a single machine or across a local network grid. Improve workflow by using the superior structural code checking in SACS to post-process the MOSES calculated time domain loads contained within a common solution file.
Improve workflow by using advanced structural code checking to inform modifications to the floating platform design. You can:
• Easily create accurate hydrodynamic and structural models of any floating platform, graphically or by script, with MOSES Modeler
• Use the powerful connectors in MOSES to accurately simulate moorings in both the frequency and time domains.
• Optimize the interaction between the floating platform and the wind turbine through MOSES’s interface with third-party aeroelastic software, DNV GL’s Bladed, accounting for wave, wind, and the wind-induced mechanical loading.
• Utilize the superior structural code checking in SACS to post process the MOSES calculated time domain loads contained within a common solution file.
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OpenWindPower Floating Platform Capabilities
Model Floating Platforms
Create complex 3D models for any platform using wizards and interactive sketch capabilities. Utilize flexible data import, mesh modeling, and automated curve and surface fitting capabilities to quickly generate models for the analysis of new or existing platforms. Systematically explore design alternatives by making measured changes to your models with easy-to-use features. Apply transformations to increase the productivity of your initial design process.
Analyze floating systems
Automate analyses using the MOSES simulation language to define environmental conditions, specify mooring configurations with the powerful MOSES Connectors, and run the integrated solvers in a unified environment. Ensure system response is within defined limits over a range of operating conditions.
Integrate with aeroelastic wind turbine solvers
Optimize the interaction between the floating platform and the wind turbine through the MOSES interface with DNV GL's Bladed. Export the floating platform's hydrodynamic database from MOSES via the ubiquitous WAMIT file format. Automate the import of thousands of Bladed load cases for complete MOSES time domain analyses, accounting for the wind-induced mechanical loading on the turbine.
Automate multiple analyses across a local network grid
Save time by executing multiple MOSES analyses simultaneously across the available cores on a single machine, or by distributing to the available nodes on a local area network, with the Bentley Analysis Service.
Ensure compliance to offshore design codes
Ensure structural compliance using built-in checking. Filter results for critical conditions. Optimize design and configuration for compliance to numerous current and past international codes, including API, AISC, EC, ISO, DNV, and Norsok. Deliver compliance documentation.