U.S. research project aims to develop floating offshore wind turbine simulators

The simulation software will improve the design of floating offshore wind turbines and help increase their use as a renewable energy source.

A University of Central Florida engineering professor is leading a $3.3 million project funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to research floating offshore wind turbines. “My goal is to model floating offshore wind turbines and use the model to explore design improvements while concurrently investigating new ideas for control and sensing, a concept that is termed Control Co-Design,” says Tuhin Das, the project’s principal investigator and a professor in UCF’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He is working to... ... More: Official Press Release University of Central Florida

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