Windt, Christian, Ringwood, John, Davidson, Josh and Schmitt, Pál (2019) Contribution to the CCP-WSI Blind Test Series 3: Analysis of scaling effects of moored point-absorber wave energy converters in a CFD-based numerical wave tank. In: Proceedings of the Twenty-ninth (2019) International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference. International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE), pp. 3051-3058. ISBN 9781880653852
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Abstract
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) based numerical wave tanks
(NWTs) can provide valuable insight into the hydrodynamic performance of wave energy converters (WECs). Being able to capture hydrodynamic non-linearities, CFD-based NWTs (CNWTs) allow the analysis
of WECs over a wide range of test conditions, such as sea states, power
take-off control settings and model scale. The capabilities of a CNWT
are exploited in this paper, which aims to analyse of the scaling effects
of two moored point-absorber type WECs, exposed to focussed waves.
To this end, three different scales are considered: 1:1, 1:10 and 1:10PWT.
The latter, 1:10PWT scale, refers to the typical scale used in physical wave
tanks (PWTs), complying with Froude scaling, but violating Reynolds
scaling. In the 1:10 scale model, fluid viscosity is scaled, in line with
the geometric properties, thereby achieving both Froude and Reynolds
similitude. From the results, average differences between the three considered scales of around 5% have been observed, and the overall greatest
sensitivity to scale effects can be found in the surge and pitch degree of
freedom.
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Additional Information: | Funding: This paper is based upon work supported by Science Foundation Ireland under Grant No. 13/IA/1886. The research reported in this paper was furthermore supported by the Higher Education Excellence Program of the Ministry of Human Capacities in the frame of Water science & Disaster Prevention research area of Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME FIKP-V´IZ). Cite as: Windt, Christian, Ringwood, John V., Davidson, Josh, and Pál Schmitt. "Contribution to the CCP-WSI Blind Test Series 3: Analysis of Scaling Effects of Moored Point-Absorber Wave Energy Converters in a CFD-Based Numerical Wave Tank." Paper presented at the The 29th International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, June 2019. |
Keywords: | Wave Energy; CCP-WSI Blind Test; Impulse wave maker; CFD; numerical wave tank; OpenFOAM; Scaling; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > Centre for Ocean Energy Research Faculty of Science and Engineering > Electronic Engineering |
Item ID: | 14272 |
Depositing User: | Professor John Ringwood |
Date Deposited: | 29 Mar 2021 15:50 |
Publisher: | International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Funders: | Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) |
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URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/14272 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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