Kelly, Thomas, Zabala, Inaki, Peña-Sanchez, Yerai, Penalba, Markel, Ringwood, John, Henriques, João and Blanco, Jesús (2021) A post-processing technique for addressing ‘irregular frequencies’ and other issues in the results from BEM solvers. In: 14th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, 5-9th Sept 2021, Plymouth, UK.
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Abstract
Within the wave energy community, hydrodynamic coefficients obtained from boundary element methods (BEMs) are commonly used to predict the behaviour
of wave energy converters (WECs) in response to incident
waves. A number of commercially-available BEM solvers
exist, with a number of open-source alternatives also
available. While open-source solvers have an obvious cost
advantage compared to their commercial counterparts, the
results from such solvers are often susceptible to so-called
‘irregular frequencies’, which arise from ill-conditioning
in boundary integral problems, and result in large under or over-estimation of hydrodynamic parameters at certain excitation frequencies. Furthermore, while commercial
solvers may employ techniques to suppress the effects
of irregular frequencies, such solvers may, under certain
circumstances, exhibit other problems in the hydrodynamic
results produced. For example, the results obtained for the
added mass at high frequencies, and the infinite frequency
added mass for a water column, may be incorrect. The
current work first focusses on an approach to remove the
effects of irregular frequencies from the results obtained
for the radiation damping of a particular WEC geometry.
The use of radiation damping results to obtain values for
the added mass, through the use of the Ogilvie relations,
is then considered. The technique described herein has
been implemented in BEMRosetta, an open-source tool
which allows a user to view the results from various BEM
solvers, as well as converting input files between solvers.
The results presented in this paper have been obtained
using the BEMRosetta implementation.
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Keywords: | Boundary element methods; Irregular frequencies; Numerical modelling; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Electronic Engineering Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > Centre for Ocean Energy Research |
Item ID: | 16248 |
Depositing User: | Professor John Ringwood |
Date Deposited: | 15 Jul 2022 10:20 |
Refereed: | Yes |
URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/16248 |
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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