IM-POWER

This Horizon Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship project focuses on renewable energy, wind energy, and floating offshore wind. The project also incorporates aspects of Computational Fluid Dynamics (known as CFD), power grid management, and electricity distribution systems. To achieve the final goal of the project, two research objectives will be met:

• Define and validate model-chain free software to address the spatial multi-scale nature of wave/wind generation and propagation for offshore wind farms under storm scenarios;
• Enhance the capabilities of existing open-source software towards a fully integrated tool for floating offshore wind turbines suitable for high-fidelity simulations.

IM–POWER makes use of the CFD DualSPHysics software,– based on the Lagrangian SPH method – that will permit the prediction of floating offshore wind turbine performance, with high accuracy and robustness. Additionally, the project will provide the following scientific and technological innovations:

• Guidelines for the critical allocation of the offshore wind farms, and layout optimization.
• Critical information for the optimization, design, and update of power grids and short-term storage facilities through the estimation of floating wind farm power output.

The assessment of floating wind farm power output under storm conditions has never been attempted before. Distributing our code modification and model layouts as open source will broaden the impact of our Action.

IM-POWER has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101109440.

Read more about IM-POWER on the project's external website