Testing floating wind turbines in hydrodynamic laboratories is challenging due to 1) poor wind field modelling, 2) Froude-Reynolds scaling conflict and impossibility to apply correct rotor loads using a physical rotor.
Objective: The project has been developing hybrid testing, i.e. a testing method in which the physical system under study is partitioned into two (or more) subsystems: A physical subsystem tested experimentally in model-scale, connected in a real-time manner with a numerical subsystem, simulated on a computer. The two parts interact with each other using a network of sensors and actuators.