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Windfloat Modeling and simulation #1920

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Dear @sdu20951,

Presumably in your graphs blue is OpenFAST and orange is AQWA?

Regardless--given that the WindFloat tower is not located at the center of the floater, but rather on an offset column--I'd expect that you'd also have to change the potential-flow solution (diffraction, radiation, hydrostatics). I see that you are using your own WAMIT-formatted output files (OOStarYangTest2655), but you've kept PtfmRefxt=0, which implies that this potential-flow solution is relative to the tower centerline; is that correct?

I see a large mean heave in still water. Does your full-system weight (rotor, drivetrain, nacelle, tower, floater) balance with the floater buoyancy and vertical mooring pr…

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