Abstract
The study of hydrodynamic characteristics of floating double-rotor horizontal axis tidal current turbines (FDHATTs) is of great significance for the development of tidal current energy. In this paper, the effect of roll motion on a FDHATT is investigated using the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) method. The analysis was conducted in the CFD software STAR-CCM+ using the Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes method. The effects of different roll periods and tip speed ratios on the power coefficient and thrust coefficient of FDHATT were studied, and then the changes in the vorticity field and velocity field of the turbine wake were analyzed by two-dimensional cross-section and Q criterion. The study indicates that roll motion results in a maximum decrease of 30.76% in the average power coefficient and introduces fluctuations in the instantaneous load. Furthermore, roll motion significantly accelerates the recovery of wake velocity. Different combinations of roll periods and tip speed ratios lead to varying degrees of wake velocity recovery. In the optimal combination, at a position 12 times the rotor diameter downstream, roll motion can recover the wake velocity to 92% of the incoming flow velocity. This represents a 23% improvement compared to the case with no roll motion.
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