Assessment of boundary-element method for modelling a free-floating sloped wave energy device. Part 2: experimental validation

Gregory Payne; Jamie Taylor; Tom Bruce; P. Parkin

doi:10.1016/j.oceaneng.2007.10.008

Assessment of boundary-element method for modelling a free-floating sloped wave energy device. Part 2: experimental validation

Gregory Payne, Jamie Taylor, Tom Bruce, P. Parkin

School of Engineering

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Abstract

The boundary-element method has been widely used as a design tool in the offshore and ship building industry for more than 30 years. Its application to wave energy conversion is, however, more recent. This is the second of two papers on a comparison of numerical and physical modelling of a free-floating sloped wave energy converter. In the first paper the numerical modelling formulation for the power take-off mechanism was derived using the boundary-element method package WAMIT. It was verified against numerical benchmark data. In this paper, the outcome of the modelling of the whole device is compared with experimental measurements obtained from model testing in a wave tank. The agreement is generally good.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	342-357
Number of pages	16
Journal	Ocean Engineering
Volume	35
Issue number	3-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2007.10.008
Publication status	Published - 2008

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