A Novel Vibration Suppression Device for Floating Offshore Wind Generator

Abstract

This paper proposes a new combined vibration suppressing device, which can be used to suppress the swaying vibration of off-shore floating wind generator under waves. The floating wind power station tower was modeled, the wave force and the torsion force of the tower were analyzed and the FSI numerical simulation was carried out. The calculation results demonstrate that the amplitudes of the tower torsion angle have been attenuated by 8%, 11% and 17% with different vibration suppression devices which are TMD, TLD and new combined device. In this case the new combined device has the best vibration suppression performance. It is validated that compared to the other two single vibration suppression devices, the new combined device has better vibration suppression capacity and a new way is provided to design the vibration suppression device for off shore floating wind power station.