Writings

FOWT · Part 3

Who Runs Your Simulation When You're Not a Simulation Engineer?

tl;dr. Parts 1 and 2 of this series built a floating-wind mooring model and turned it into a dynamic co-simulation. By the end of Part 2 the simulator could already answer real engineering questions.…

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FOWT · Part 2

It Moves Now: Dynamic Mooring with a 6DOF FOWT

A floating wind turbine that never moves isn't telling us very much. Part 1 of this series held the platform at a single frozen offset, a useful first look at the mooring physics, but no real…

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FOWT · Part 1

One Line. Four Models. Which One, and When?

Mooring lines bend, sag, drag along the seabed, and reshape with every platform motion. What force does that shape put on the platform right now? The answer drives early design, safety margins, and…

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