Numerical and Experimental Study of a Surging Point Absorber Wave Energy Converter. Conference paper at the 8th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Uppsala, Sweden.
Abstract:
Numerical modelling of a WEC is presented in this paper along with some details of the experimental setup. Issues related to the numerical modelling of the single DOF (degree-of-freedom) motion of a surging point absorber WEC (wave energy converter) are outlined and a comparison with experimental data is presented. A commercial CFD code Flow-3D has been used for the numerical modelling and the ability of the code to simulate free surface linear waves and wavestructure interaction is evaluated in this paper.
The work is aimed at simulating a surging wave energy converter to achieve an optimized shape and to predict output power at a higher or full scale. The findings of this study may also serve as a reference point for the use of a commercial code such as Flow-3D for simulating such problems.
This report is divided into the following sections:- Introduction
- Wave Tank Experiments
- Numerical Modelling
- Results
- Conclusions and Future Work
Publication Year:
2009
Publisher:
Joule Centre
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Author(s):
Bhinder, M.A., Mingham, C.G., Causon, D.M., Rahmati, M.T., Aggidis, G.A. and Chaplin, R.V.
Energy Category
Language:
English
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