floating
solar
Larger than 10 ha, floating solar plants are built with an assembly of interconnected modules that are influenced by wind, swell, current and mooring loads.
WINDGLAZ assists you in building numerical models in order to assess the fatigue and extreme loadings experienced by the system.
Environmental conditions
Collection, interpretation and justification of environmental conditions for a specific site is the starting point for each offshore solar project. We have been responsible of the specification and assessment of these data for many offshore solar projects. Windglaz can assist you in the environmental conditions analysis and definition, related to certification requirements.
Type of studies
- Metocean conditions processing
- Loading situation definition
- Environmental condition representativity assessment
- Turbulent and deterministic wind modelling
- Cyclonic and deterministic wind modelling
- Swell impact loading calculation
- Justification and documentation with certification body
Numerical models calibration and validation
Numerical models for floating solar plants analysis cover several of our core research areas : aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, structure behavior and soil interaction. With its multidisciplinary team, Windglaz assists you in the setup, calibration and validation of these models.
Type of studies
- Windage loads surface definition
- Sensitivity studies for numerical model (size, convergence)
- Hydrodynamic model setup and calibration
- Structural model setup and calibration
- Modal analysis
- Hydrodynamic data base calculation (diffraction/radiation)
- Mooring definition and analysis
- Tank test specifications and follow-up
- Justification and documentation with certification body
Calculation loop, sensitivity and optimization
Analysing an offshore solar system requires a large number of simulations due to the important impact of fatigue loadings and extreme events.
With a strong experience and performant computation capabilities, WINDGLAZ can assist you in the system loads calculation and assessment.
Type of studies
- Coupled calculation methodology definition and documentation
- Aerodynamic loadings calculation and analysis
- Hydrodynamic loadings calculation and analysis
- Coupled loadings calculation (turbine – foundation – mooring)
- Specific sensitivity study
- Optimization loop
- Fatigue and extreme loads postprocessing following standards and norms
- Load reports
our tools
We use industry standard software and have developed in-house analysing and processing tools.
