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Analytical and computational modelling for wave energy systems: the example of oscillating wave surge converters

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posted on 2017-05-26, 15:06 authored by F. Dias, Emiliano Renzi, Sarah Gallagher, Dripta Sarkar, Yanji Wei, Thomas Abadie, Cathal Cummins, Ashkan Rafiee
The development of new wave energy converters has shed light on a number of unanswered questions in fluid mechanics, but has also identified a number of new issues of importance for their future deployment. The main concerns relevant to the practical use of wave energy converters are sustainabiliy, survivability, and maintainability. And of course, it is also necessary to maximize the capture per unit area of the structure as well as to minimize the cost. In this review, we consider some of the questions related to the topics of sustainability, survivability, and maintenance access, with respect to sea conditions, for generic wave energy converters with an emphasis on the oscillating wave surge converter (OWSC). New analytical models that have been developed are a topic of particular discussion. It is also shown how existing numerical models have been pushed to their limits to provide answers to open questions relating to the operation and characteristics of wave energy converters.

Funding

The project was funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) under the research project “High-end computational modelling for wave energy systems” (SFI/10/IN.1/12996) in collaboration with Marine Renewable Energy Ireland (MaREI), the SFI Centre for Marine Renewable Energy Research (SFI/12/RC/2302). We also acknowledge support from Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) through the Renewable Energy Research Development & Demonstration Programme (RE/OE/13/20132074).

History

School

  • Science

Department

  • Mathematical Sciences

Published in

Acta Mechanica Sinica

Volume

33

Issue

4

Pages

647-662

Citation

DIAS, F. ... et al, 2017. Analytical and computational modelling for wave energy systems: the example of oscillating wave surge converters. Acta Mechanica Sinica, 33 (4), pp. 647–662.

Publisher

Springer © The Author(s)

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Acceptance date

2017-04-28

Publication date

2017-06-07

Notes

This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Springer under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

ISSN

0567-7718

eISSN

1614-3116

Language

  • en