Conceptual Design and Hydrodynamic Analysis of a Floating Wind Turbine Platform

发布日期👨‍👩‍👦‍👦🙎🏿：2012-07-20

报告题目

时间

2012-08-01 10:00

地点

木兰船建楼A206会议室

报告人

Changhong HU (RIAM, Kyushu University)

The interest for floating offshore wind turbines has increased the recent years. In Japan, where shallow water sites are not available, floating offshore turbines are considered as a better solution. In Kyushu University, a research project on semi-submersible type wind turbines is progressing. A demonstration experiment with a 18m diameter floating body has been launched in 2011 in the east part of Hakata bay with two 3kW Wind-Lens turbines. As for the next stage of the project, a 100m size platform with three 350kW Wind-Lens turbines is planned. In this presentation, recent studies about the Kyushu University research project will be introduced on conceptual design of the large scale floating wind turbine platform and hydrodynamic analysis of the floating body by numerical simulation and experiment.
 

Brief Biography
        Dr Changhong Hu graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1995 with a Ph.D. in ship and ocean engineering in the area of computational modeling. He joined Kyushu University in the same year and has worked in the development of CFD for ship and ocean engineering applications including field modeling of marine fires, environmental assessment of Mega Float, and strongly nonlinear interaction between ship and waves. In 2002, he became an associate professor in RIAM, Kyushu University. He is now involved in an offshore wind project of Kyushu University, and prediction of wind and wave loads on an floating wind turbine platform under extreme environmental conditions is his recent area of interest.