Van Oord and Ansys accelerate design of highly sustainable offshore wind turbines

Van Oord is working with Ansys to speed environmental sustainability while expediting new product designs for the offshore wind turbine industry.

Ansys is aiding Van Oord engineers in their development of cutting-edge wind turbine foundations, helping them increase product quality and deliver new innovations to market faster than ever before.

Designing wind turbine foundations typically requires Van Oord engineers to invest considerable time developing numerous complex, dynamic analysis finite element models.

To accelerate and optimize the simulation process, Van Oord’s engineering team worked with Ansys channel partner Infinite Simulation Systems to harness Ansys Mechanical and Ansys Cloud, which spurred design optimization, significantly shortened product development timelines and boosted the efficiency of next-gen offshore wind turbines.

Leveraging Mechanical and Ansys Cloud empowers Van Oord engineers to rapidly run 5x more design iterations on Cloud to predict the performance of advanced wind turbine foundations and enhance the fabrication processes while reducing project risks and speeding supply chain negotiations.

As a result, simulations that required a week to run on multiple costly workstations now run overnight, delivering a 7x improvement in time savings, while greatly decreasing risk of production delay.

Original Source: https://ocean-energyresources.com/2021/04/17/van-oord-and-ansys-accelerate-design-of-highly-sustainable-offshore-wind-turbines/