海上风机基础结构波流荷载研究-水利工程专业论文.docxVIP

ABSTRACT The offshore wind power generation has just taken the first step in China, and many engineering problems about the construction of supported structures need to be solved urgently. In addition to the wind forces transferred down by the wind turbine, the supported structure is also suffering with the load of combined waves and currents. Therefore the investigation on the load of supported structures of wind turbine due to combined waves and currents would be of great significance for the development of offshore wind farm. Based on the open source code of OpenFOAM, a three- dimensional numerical wave flume and a three-dimensional numerical wave-current flume are developed. The interactions among waves, current and supported structures of wind turbine are investigated through numerical simulation. The main contents and conclusions of the thesis are as follows. The interFoam, a two-phase flow solver of OpenFOAM is used to solve uncompressible Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes Equations(RANS). The momentum distribution source term is introduced into the momentum equations for wave making. The VOF method is used to capture the free surface motion. Then, a three-dimensional numerical wave flume is developed. Through a series tests, optimal time and space steps are chosen for three-dimensional wave numerical models: Space step in horizontal direction is L/100; vertical step within the scope of wave height depends on the length-width ratio of the grid, and the recommend ratio is about 1.8; the vertical steps for the rest grids is gradually diminishing; the time step can dynamically vary with the maximum step of T/100, and meanwhile Courant number is limited less than 0.2. The developed model is applied to simulate the wave field around a cylinder pile, and the wave heights, velocities and pressures are obtained. The simulated results agree with the experimental data well. It can be shown that the interaction between waves and structures is simulated by the numerical w