CFD Simulations of Floating Point Absorber Wave Energy Converter Arrays Subjected to Regular Waves

CFD Simulations of Floating Point Absorber Wave Energy Converter Arrays Subjected to Regular Waves

In this paper we use the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) toolbox OpenFOAM to perform numerical simulations of multiple floating point absorber wave energy converters (WECs) arranged in a geometrical array configuration inside a numerical wave tank (NWT). The two-phase Navier-Stokes fluid solver i...

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Main Authors: Brecht Devolder, Vasiliki Stratigaki, Peter Troch, Pieter Rauwoens
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-03-01
Series:Energies
Subjects:
CFD
OpenFOAM®/IHFOAM
wave energy
array modelling
validation study
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/3/641

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