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In the coming years offshore wind energy will be one of the most promising areas in the renewable power generation field. Achieving the optimum design of floating platforms requires a rigorous analysis chain to establish the response of the whole platform under different scenarios. With this aim, we have developed a software package that automatically analyzes the feasibility of a floating structure. The structure of the platform is defined according to a very general set of parameters, allowing us to consider a wide range of designs. The package calls some commercial applications and some own codes, to complete the analysis process. Returned results include the hydrostatic equilibrium position, hydrodynamic pressure, RAOs (response-amplitude operators), material costs and static stresses.
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Authors would like to thank the support of Repsol in this project and, in particular, the enthusiasm showed by Rosana Plaza Baonza and Jesús García San Luis. We want to recognize the work of Ibán Constenla Rozados in the early part of the project. Finally, we appreciate the opportunity given by the math-in network of presenting this paper in ECMI 2014.
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Aller, D. et al. (2016). Automatic Analysis of Floating Offshore Structures. In: Russo, G., Capasso, V., Nicosia, G., Romano, V. (eds) Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2014. ECMI 2014. Mathematics in Industry(), vol 22. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23413-7_20
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