Simulation of safety-relevant situations regarding the interaction of service ships with offshore wind turbine plants

Publikationstyp
Conference Paper
Publikationsdatum
2015-05
Sprache
English
Author
König, Marcel 
Düster, Alexander 
Ferreira Gonzales, Daniel 
Abdel-Maksoud, Moustafa orcid-logo
Institut
Konstruktion und Festigkeit von Schiffen M-10 
Fluiddynamik und Schiffstheorie M-8 
TORE-URI
http://hdl.handle.net/11420/7101
Volume
7
Article Number
OMAE201542018
Citation
International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, OMAE: (2015-05)
Contribution to Conference
International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE 2015 
Publisher DOI
10.1115/OMAE201542018
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-84947776465
When offshore wind turbine plants require servicing, crew transfer vessels are used to bring the maintenance personnel to the plant. The berthing maneuver is a coupled process governed by the ship's motion in the swell and the contact between the fender and the boat landing. Our research aims to simulate the berthing maneuver in order to identify conditions to ensure safe landing operations and to ascertain how future transfer concepts can help to avoid severe accidents. To this end, we take advantage of a partitioned solution approach which has already been proven to be effective for various kinds of multiphysics problems and which allows for the reuse of existing dedicated solvers for the solution of the subproblems involved.