Reduce risk and optimise design of floating wind turbines with Bladed
Minimise foundation design uncertainty with accurate turbine models
Using an accurate model of the turbine from the early project stages leads to reductions in uncertainty and cost.
- For early analysis and research, use the IEA 15 MW and IEA 22 MW reference turbine models supplied with Bladed.
- For preliminary analysis use DNV concept models that are representative of real turbine designs, including a commercial quality controller.
- For detailed design, Bladed's encryption technology allows the turbine manufacturer to share their model with the foundation designer.
Complete solution for rapid preliminary design iterations
In the early stages of a floating wind project, different system configurations need to be evaluated quickly for an efficient design optimisation.
Bladed simplifies this process with comprehensive models for floating wind coupled analysis, capturing all the relevant physics in one tool.
To support preliminary foundation design, the internal structural loads in the foundation are directly calculated, allowing initial assessment without calculation of stresses.
Save time with DNV’s workflows for detailed design
DNV's Bladed and Sesam tools have been robustly interfaced and verified to support foundation structural analysis workflows. You can focus on the engineering and design and leave the software challenges to us!
Bladed and Sesam work together to provide you with rigorous time domain workflows to finalise and certify the design.
Learn more about Sesam's efficient time domain workflows
Interface with popular tools for seamless project collaboration
Bladed has interfaces with other leading design tools to streamline the exchange of information and data between different teams, and to combine the benefits from various specialised tools.
- Combine the strengths of Bladed and OrcaFlex by co-simulation - learn more in our blog and documentation.
- Model complex mooring arrangements by coupling Bladed to open source tools like MoorDyn.
- Import hydrodynamic data from Wadam/Wamit /Aqwa to capture large body radiation-diffraction effects.
Design controllers for safe and stable operation
Each turbine and platform is unique and requires a turbine controller tuned for the combined system, to ensure safe operation and maximise power production.
Bladed is trusted by wind turbine manufacturers thanks to its unrivalled control design capabilities. Bladed has been used to design the controller for many floating platforms, such as Ideol's Floatgen.
What can Bladed do for your company?
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