CFD Simulation of a Floating Wind Turbine with OpenFOAM

This page contains all simulation cases, modified libraries and post-processing tools from the Master Thesis "CFD Simulation of a Floating Wind Turbine with OpenFOAM: an FSI approach based on the actuator line and relaxation zone methods" by Pere Frontera.

Uploaded for educational purposes only.

Contents

• cases: contains the necessary OpenFOAM files to reproduce the simulation cases from the thesis.
• libraries: contains the two modified libraries required for the simulations from chapters 6 and 7.
• other: contains post-processing and job submission (PBS) scripts.

Usage

Refer to the README.md from within the different folders.

Publications

Pere Frontera. "CFD Simulation of a Floating Wind Turbine with OpenFOAM: an FSI approach based on the actuator line and relaxation zone methods". MSc Thesis. TU Delft, 2022. An electronic version of this thesis is available at http://repository.tudelft.nl.

Acknowledgements

OpenFOAM is free, open source software for computational fluid dynamics (CFD), developed primarily by CFD Direct, on behalf of the OpenFOAM Foundation.

turbinesFoam is a library for simulating wind and marine hydrokinetic turbines in OpenFOAM using the actuator line method, developed by P. Bachant.

waves2Foam is a toolbox used to generate and absorb free surface water waves based on the relaxation zone method, developed by Niels G. Jacobsen and mantained by Deltares.