A RANS simulation of the heave response of a two-body floating-point wave absorber

Proceedings of the International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 565-571

  Yu, Yi Hsiang ^a   Li, Ye ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Floating point absorber (FPA); Free surface; Heave; Power take off (PTO); Reynolds averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) equations; Volume of fluid (VOF); Wave energy conversion (WEC)

Indexed keywords

FLOATING-POINT ABSORBER (FPA); FREE SURFACES; HEAVE; REYNOLDS-AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; VOLUME OF FLUIDS; WAVE ENERGY;

DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; POWER TAKEOFFS; TAKEOFF; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION; WAVE POWER;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 80052697815     PISSN: 10986189     EISSN: 15551792     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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