Kelly, Thomas, Zabala, Inaki, Peña-Sanchez, Yerai, Ringwood, John, Henriques, João and Blanco, Jesus M. (2022) A post-processing technique for removing ‘irregular frequencies’ and other issues in the results from BEM solvers. International Journal of Marine Energy, 5 (1). pp. 123-131. ISSN 2214-1669
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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: | Article |
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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: | 16316 |
Depositing User: | Professor John Ringwood |
Date Deposited: | 15 Jul 2022 08:31 |
Journal or Publication Title: | International Journal of Marine Energy |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Refereed: | Yes |
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URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/16316 |
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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