The accurate prediction of unsteady aerodynamic loads, for floating offshore wind turbines, is still questionable because many methods widely used for this purpose are applied in ways that violate the assumptions of their original formulation. The poi...
The accurate prediction of unsteady aerodynamic loads, for floating offshore wind turbines, is still questionable because many methods widely used for this purpose are applied in ways that violate the assumptions of their original formulation. The point of the present study is to conduct unsteady aerodynamic analysis of rotating wind turbine blade considering aerodynamic interference effects due to the periodic platform surge motion of a floating offshore wind turbine. This work was done using several numerical approaches based on both conventional blade element momentum theories and particularly computational fluid dynamics with the overset grid-based approach.