TY - JOUR
T1 - Analytical and computational modelling for wave energy systems
T2 - the example of oscillating wave surge converters
AU - Dias, Frédéric
AU - Renzi, Emiliano
AU - Gallagher, Sarah
AU - Sarkar, Dripta
AU - Wei, Yanji
AU - Abadie, Thomas
AU - Cummins, Cathal
AU - Rafiee, Ashkan
N1 - Funding Information: The project was funded by the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) under the research project “High-end Computational Modelling for Wave Energy Systems” (Grant SFI/10/IN.1/12996) in collaboration with Marine Renewable Energy Ireland (MaREI), the SFI Centre for Marine Renewable Energy Research (SFI/12/RC/2302). D. Sarkar acknowledges support from EPSRC through Project Grant EP/M021394/1. We also acknowledge support from the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) through the Renewable Energy Research Development & Demonstration Programme (Grant RE/OE/13/20132074). The ESB, Met Éireann, the Marine Institute and Shell provided the buoy data for validation. The INFOMAR bathymetric datasets were provided by the Geological Survey Ireland (GSI) and the Marine Institute. The VORF software for tidal datum conversions was obtained from the GSI. The UKHO bathymetry was provided by OceanWise Ltd. The authors thank the ECMWF for providing the ERA-Interim Re-analysis data. The altimeter derived wave data was obtained from the Centre ERS d’Archivage et de Traitement (CERSAT), at Ifremer, Plouzané, France in the frame of the Globwave project, funded by the European Space Agency (ESA). The authors thank Dr. C. Sweeney and Prof. P. Lynch (UCD School of Mathematics and Statistics) for helpful discussions, Dr. F. Ardhuin (Ifremer) for his advice regarding the WAVEWATCH code, Dr. K. Doherty and Dr. A. Henry (Aquamarine Power) for providing useful information about the Oyster WEC, Dr. O. Kimmoun (Ecole Centrale Marseille) for his help with the 2-D experiments. Finally, the numerical simulations were performed on the Stokes and Fionn clusters at the Irish Centre for High-end Computing (ICHEC) and at the Swiss National Computing Centre under the PRACE-2IP project (Grant FP7 RI-283493) Nearshore wave climate analysis of the west coast of Ireland.
PY - 2017/8/1
Y1 - 2017/8/1
N2 - The development of new wave energy converters has shed light on a number of unanswered questions in fluid mechanics, but has also identified a number of new issues of importance for their future deployment. The main concerns relevant to the practical use of wave energy converters are sustainability, survivability, and maintainability. Of course, it is also necessary to maximize the capture per unit area of the structure as well as to minimize the cost. In this review, we consider some of the questions related to the topics of sustainability, survivability, and maintenance access, with respect to sea conditions, for generic wave energy converters with an emphasis on the oscillating wave surge converter. New analytical models that have been developed are a topic of particular discussion. It is also shown how existing numerical models have been pushed to their limits to provide answers to open questions relating to the operation and characteristics of wave energy converters.
AB - The development of new wave energy converters has shed light on a number of unanswered questions in fluid mechanics, but has also identified a number of new issues of importance for their future deployment. The main concerns relevant to the practical use of wave energy converters are sustainability, survivability, and maintainability. Of course, it is also necessary to maximize the capture per unit area of the structure as well as to minimize the cost. In this review, we consider some of the questions related to the topics of sustainability, survivability, and maintenance access, with respect to sea conditions, for generic wave energy converters with an emphasis on the oscillating wave surge converter. New analytical models that have been developed are a topic of particular discussion. It is also shown how existing numerical models have been pushed to their limits to provide answers to open questions relating to the operation and characteristics of wave energy converters.
KW - Slamming
KW - Wave energy
KW - Wave energy converter
KW - Wave resource
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85020256771&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10409-017-0683-6
DO - 10.1007/s10409-017-0683-6
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85020256771
SN - 0567-7718
VL - 33
SP - 647
EP - 662
JO - Acta Mechanica Sinica/Lixue Xuebao
JF - Acta Mechanica Sinica/Lixue Xuebao
IS - 4
ER -