Uploaded February 2023 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago
Offshore wind is going to be a major contributor to the production of renewable energy. Large scale fixed offshore wind farms are being built all over the world. However, not all countries with ambitions in offshore wind have shallow water locations suited for fixed offshore wind turbines at their disposal. Floating offshore wind might play an important role in harvesting the large wind energy resources at locations where fixed offshore wind energy is not an economically feasible option.
The first floating offshore wind turbines are being designed and tested, however, risks and uncertainties in the design of these floating structures have to be reduced before full scale floating offshore wind farms are going to be operational. As part of the Dutch research project “TO2 – Floating Wind”, with TO2-partners Deltares, MARIN, TNO and NLR, Deltares and TU Delft improved existing design methods for floating offshore wind structures with respect to the behaviour of such structures in extreme wave conditions.
The result of this project is a fully nonlinear numerical wave tank which accurately describes;
Viscous effects
Extreme wave impacts
Forces in mooring lines
Offshore wind is going to be a major contributor to the production of renewable energy. Large scale fixed offshore wind farms are being built all over the world. However, not all countries with ambitions in offshore wind have shallow water locations suited for fixed offshore wind turbines at their disposal. Floating offshore wind might play an important role in harvesting the large wind energy resources at locations where fixed offshore wind energy is not an economically feasible option.
The first floating offshore wind turbines are being designed and tested, however, risks and uncertainties in the design of these floating structures have to be reduced before full scale floating offshore wind farms are going to be operational. As part of the Dutch research project “TO2 – Floating Wind”, with TO2-partners Deltares, MARIN, TNO and NLR, Deltares and TU Delft improved existing design methods for floating offshore wind structures with respect to the behaviour of such structures in extreme wave conditions.
The result of this project is a fully nonlinear numerical wave tank which accurately describes;
Viscous effects
Extreme wave impacts
Forces in mooring lines
