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    Simulating focused wave impacts on point absorber wave energy converters

    Lin, Zaibin, Chen, Hao, Qian, Ling ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9716-2342, Ma, Zhihua, Causon, Derek and Mingham, Clive (2021) Simulating focused wave impacts on point absorber wave energy converters. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering and Computational Mechanics, 174 (1). pp. 19-31. ISSN 1755-0777

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    Abstract This work contributes to the CCP-WSI Blind Test Series 2 by numerically investigating the dynamic response of two simplified point absorber wave energy converters (a hemispherical-bottom cylinder and a cylinder with moon-pool) under the action of focused waves of varying steepness. The open source toolbox OpenFOAM along with its new overset grid functionality is applied and evaluated for the complex flow problem involving both large free surface deformations and large amplitude motions of floating objects. The quality of the numerically generated focused wave groups is first examined and validated against the experimental data. The effects of both wave steepness and the moon-pool on the dynamic responses and mooring loads of the simplified wave energy converters (WECs) are then analyzed

    Item Type: Article
    Peer-reviewed: Yes
    Date Deposited: 01 Feb 2021 13:44
    Publisher: Thomas Telford Ltd.
    Additional Information: This is an Author Accepted Manuscript of a paper accepted for publication in Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering and Computational Mechanics, published by and copyright ICE Publishing.
    Divisions: Faculties > Science and Engineering
    Research Centres > Centre for Advanced Computational Science
    Subject terms: Floating structures, Focused wave, Overset mesh, Point absorber wave energy converters, 0905 Civil Engineering, 0912 Materials Engineering, 0913 Mechanical Engineering
    URI: https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/627190
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1680/jencm.19.00038
    ISSN 1755-0777
    e-ISSN 1755-0785

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