Investigation of hydrodynamic performance of an OWC (oscillating water column) wave energy device using a fully nonlinear HOBEM (higher-order boundary element method)

Energy

Volumn 83, Issue , 2015, Pages 177-188

  Ning, De Zhi ^a   Shi, Jin ^a   Zou, Qing Ping ^b   Teng, Bin ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b University of Maine   (United States)

Author keywords

HOBEM; Hydrodynamic efficiency; OWC; Source generation technique; Time domain simulation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SAILING VESSELS; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

GENERATION TECHNIQUES; HOBEM; HYDRODYNAMIC EFFICIENCY; OWC; TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATIONS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GAUSSIAN METHOD; HYDRODYNAMICS; MODEL VALIDATION; NONLINEARITY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POWER GENERATION; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; WAVE POWER;

EID: 84926421163     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2015.02.012     Document Type: Article

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