Floating wind farms in sea basins with moderate wind speeds: a critical assessment of the potential of low-specific-power turbines in reducing the LCoE - Supplementary Data

This repository contain supplementary data to the article: Travaglini, R., Papi, F., Bianchini, A.: Floating wind farms in sea basins with moderate wind speeds: a critical assessment of the potential of low-specific-power turbines in reducing the LCoE, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2025 Tables with the electrical power and thrust curves of four conceptual wind turbine rotors with varying specific power and nominar rating of 15MW, determined through aerodynamic similarity to the IEA 15MW RWT (Evan Gaertner et al., 2020) are presented in "Supplementary Data.pdf"The methodology obtained to derive the four conceptual power and thrust curves is explained in the aforementioned parent article. The code used to derive these power curves can be found in the accompanying “SCALE_POWER_FROM_PERF_MAPS.py” file. Peak shaving is implementd to limit that to 2400 kN for all designs. The code uses a function developed by Saint-Drenan et al. (Saint-Drenan et al., 2020). Performance maps were sourced from https://github.com/IEAWindSystems/IEA-15-240-RWT in August 2024. Usage Please cite Travaglini, R., Papi, F., Bianchini, A.: Floating wind farms in sea basins with moderate wind speeds: a critical assessment of the potential of low-specific-power turbines in reducing the LCoE, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2025 if you use this data in your work. References Evan Gaertner, Jennifer Rinker, Latha Sethutaman, 2020. Definition of the IEA 15-Megawatt Offshore Refence Wind (No. NREL/TP-5000-75698). IEA Wind. Saint-Drenan, Y.-M., Besseau, R., Jansen, M., Staffell, I., Troccoli, A., Dubus, L., Schmidt, J., Gruber, K., Simões, S.G., Heier, S., 2020. A parametric model for wind turbine power curves incorporating environmental conditions. Renewable Energy 157, 754–768. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2020.04.123