Journal of Tropical Oceanography ›› 2025, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (3): 36-47.doi: 10.11978/2024177CSTR: 32234.14.2024177

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The hydrodynamic characteristics and the prediction of mooring system tensions for a semi-submersible floating wind turbine foundation

LI Tiankuo1(), QU Ke1,2,3(), LI Xiaohan1, WANG Aoyu1, WANG Chao1   

  1. 1. School of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, Changsha University of Science & Technology, Changsha 410114, China
    2. Key Laboratory of Dongting Lake Aquatic Eco-Environmental Control and Restoration of Hunan Province, Changsha 410114, China
    3. Key Laboratory of Water-Sediment Sciences and Water Disaster Prevention of Hunan Province, Changsha 410114, China
  • Received:2024-09-13 Revised:2024-11-19 Online:2025-05-10 Published:2025-06-04
  • Contact: QU Ke
  • Supported by:
    National Key Research and Development Program of China(2022YFC3103601); The Provincial Undergraduate Training Program for Innovation and Entrepreneurship(S202410536097)

Abstract:

Climate change has caused frequent extreme sea conditions in China's coastal regions. This has resulted in significant dynamic movements of the semi-submersible floating wind turbine foundation at sea, leading to the slack-tension phenomenon of the mooring cables. This phenomenon greatly reduces the service life of the mooring system and poses a safety risk to the overall operation of the wind turbine platform. In order to achieve an efficient, accurate and low-cost safety warning for mooring systems, this paper proposes a method which uses a fully connected neural network to predict the load, dynamic response and tension characteristics of the mooring system based on wave conditions. Using numerical simulation, a database of wave heights and the load and motion response of the foundation of a semi-submersible floating wind turbine under extreme sea conditions was constructed, and then based on which a fully connected neural network method was used to learn and make predictions. The results showed that the prediction accuracy of the tension in the mooring cables, the motion response and the load of the wind turbine foundation reached 99.57%, 98.91% and 99.79%, respectively, which proved the feasibility and reliability of the method for predicting the safety of mooring systems and provided reference for the practical application of advanced safety warning for offshore wind turbines.

Key words: semi-submersible floating platform, mooring system, fully connected neural network, deep learning, dynamic response

CLC Number: 

  • P75