TY - JOUR
T1 - The pressure impulse of wave slamming on an oscillating wave energy converter
AU - Renzi, E.
AU - Wei, Y.
AU - Dias, F.
N1 - Funding Information: ER acknowledges fruitful discussions with Dr Mark Cooker. We are grateful to Dr Hideyasu Shimadzu for helping us with the statistical analysis of the experimental data and to the skilful student William Weller for his preliminary calculations. This study was partially supported by 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 ).
PY - 2018/10/1
Y1 - 2018/10/1
N2 - Recent wave tank experiments on a flap-type wave energy converter showed the occurrence of extreme wave loads, corresponding to slamming events in highly energetic seas. In this paper, we analyse pressure-impulse values from available pressure measurements, for a series of experimental slamming tests. Then, we devise a pressure-impulse model of the slamming of a flapping plate, including the effects caused by air entrapment near the plate. Using a double conformal-mapping technique, we map the original domain into a semi-infinite channel, by means of Gauss’ hypergeometric functions. This allows us to express the pressure impulse as a superimposition of orthogonal eigenfunctions in the transformed space. The mathematical model is validated against the experimental data. Parametric analysis shows that the system is much more sensitive to the impact angle than to the initial wetted portion of the flap. Furthermore, the presence of an aerated region determines the pressure-impulse values to increase significantly at all points on the flap surface.
AB - Recent wave tank experiments on a flap-type wave energy converter showed the occurrence of extreme wave loads, corresponding to slamming events in highly energetic seas. In this paper, we analyse pressure-impulse values from available pressure measurements, for a series of experimental slamming tests. Then, we devise a pressure-impulse model of the slamming of a flapping plate, including the effects caused by air entrapment near the plate. Using a double conformal-mapping technique, we map the original domain into a semi-infinite channel, by means of Gauss’ hypergeometric functions. This allows us to express the pressure impulse as a superimposition of orthogonal eigenfunctions in the transformed space. The mathematical model is validated against the experimental data. Parametric analysis shows that the system is much more sensitive to the impact angle than to the initial wetted portion of the flap. Furthermore, the presence of an aerated region determines the pressure-impulse values to increase significantly at all points on the flap surface.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2018.07.007
DO - 10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2018.07.007
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85050106253
SN - 0889-9746
VL - 82
SP - 258
EP - 271
JO - Journal of Fluids and Structures
JF - Journal of Fluids and Structures
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