TY - JOUR
T1 - A review of scour impacting monopiles for offshore wind
AU - Qu, L.
AU - An, H.
AU - Draper, S.
AU - Watson, P.
AU - Zhao, Ming
AU - Harris, J.
AU - Whitehouse, R.
AU - Zhang, D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 The Authors
PY - 2024/6
Y1 - 2024/6
N2 - Monopiles are important structures in offshore wind engineering, primarily serving as foundations for wind turbines. When installed on a sandy seabed, local scour around monopiles can reduce their capacity, and is a significant hazard to be addressed in the design process. This paper provides a review of research related to local scour around monopiles, focusing on the following aspects: (1) identifying flow structures related to local scour, (2) synthesizing existing data on equilibrium scour depth and scour time-scale, (3) summarizing technology for observing local scour through laboratory experiments, numerical simulations and field observations, and (4) outlining the existing challenges and research opportunities.
AB - Monopiles are important structures in offshore wind engineering, primarily serving as foundations for wind turbines. When installed on a sandy seabed, local scour around monopiles can reduce their capacity, and is a significant hazard to be addressed in the design process. This paper provides a review of research related to local scour around monopiles, focusing on the following aspects: (1) identifying flow structures related to local scour, (2) synthesizing existing data on equilibrium scour depth and scour time-scale, (3) summarizing technology for observing local scour through laboratory experiments, numerical simulations and field observations, and (4) outlining the existing challenges and research opportunities.
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:77610
U2 - 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2024.117385
DO - 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2024.117385
M3 - Article
SN - 0029-8018
VL - 301
JO - Ocean Engineering
JF - Ocean Engineering
M1 - 117385
ER -
