AquaSim for wind turbines

With increased demands for sustainable energy comes a need for ever larger and more diverse energy installations

Offshore wind turbines

AquaSim is a sophisticated software solution designed to empower you in the floating wind turbine analysis. A tool that supports you understanding the opportunities and challenges that environmental loads introduce on offshore wind turbines.

Get critical insight on the highly dynamical behavior of offshore moored systems. Acquire valuable data for strength- and fatigue evaluations, simulation of installation and mooring with the use of AquaSim.

AquaSim is a refined coupled analysis tool, operating seamlessly in the time domain. Gain deeper understanding of the hydrodynamic forces, which incorporates nonlinear effects, drift forces and irregular waves. You can easily integrate this with wind loads in the analyses, using wind spectra and BEM theory. Delve into drag-, lift- and yaw moments to optimize your solutions. AquaSim allows you to investigate the effect of hydrodynamic forces and the impact of wind gusts coupled in one and the same analysis.

Comprehensive insights: consider also nonlinear mooring line forces and potential snap loads, enabling you to evaluate the complete floating wind turbine system. AquaSim gives you insights to global- as well as local cross sectional forces.

Step into the world of potentials in AquaSim and contribute to a sustainable future with the use of our software solutions.

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AquaSim delivers the value of seeing the system as a whole

Using AquaSim, complex interactions between wind, the turbine and its blades, and the forces applied by waves and currents can be simulated. This creates a view of the whole installation. Extreme weather conditions can be applied to simulate worst-case scenarios.

In the case of INO WINDMOOR 12 MW, the effect of the floating based can be accounted for.

Quick and easy design phase

Using our built-in generator and library creating and reusing turbine definitions is quick and easy. By default, an example of INO WINDMOOR 12 MW is included.

The user is free to create and share templates to speed up development.

Future enhancements will include the option to control the pitch of turbine blades through python scripts, allowing users to fine tune, and and use other controllers.