D1.3 Training Manual, Project Partner Workshop and Public Dissemination

This document is a deliverable of the FLOATECH project, funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101007142.

The aim of this document is to present a report detailing the work carried out relevant to the main tasks of Deliverable 1.3 of work package 1 of the project. The main task of this work package isthe development of the open-source wind turbine simulation software suite QBlade to enable the simulation of offshore wind turbine platforms. Deliverable 1.3 revolves around the preparation of the software package and corresponding training material to facilitate uptake of the code and general public use. This is composed of three separate subtasks:

- Training Manual: This has been prepared as an online manual to provide the user with all the necessary information to correctly operate the software. This has been prepared with two sections: The theory manual gives a detailed description of the physical models applied in the implementation of QBlade. The user guide gives a detailed overview of generating simulations and specifying inputs to the various modelling tools available in the software.

-  Project Partner Workshop: In order to ensure that the project partners of FLOATECH have the material and experience necessary to generate simulations within QBlade, a project partner workshop was held from Wed. 22nd to Friday 24th June 2022. A combination of presentation material and practical exercises was used to provide the users with practical experience applying the software.

- Public Dissemination: The QBlade website has been prepared to ensure that the public has easy access to the source code and the compiled binaries on a range of platforms. In addition, the QBlade website will serve as a platform for communications regarding the user manual, past and upcoming events and publications relevant to the use of QBlade.

These three tasks constitute the dissemination of the QBlade software along with the necessary material for members of the public and industry to easily apply the software and hence represent the final deliverable of work package 1 of the FLOATECH project. In the following, each of the above-mentioned tasks is described in greater detail