A wave focusing device for OWC wave energy convertor

Author

Liu, Zhen ; Hyun, Beom-Soo ; Jin, Jiyan ; Choi, Yonghyeon ; Shi, Hongda ; Zhang, Qin

Author_Institution

ShanDong Key Lab. of Ocean Eng., Ocean Univ. of China, Qingdao, China

fYear

2010

fDate

24-27 May 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Oscillating Water Column (OWC) device has been widely employed in the wave energy conversion. Wave Focusing Device (WFD) is proposed to improve the operating performance of OWC chamber. In the present paper, a 3D Numerical Wave Tank (NWT) using two-phase VOF model is utilized to simulate the generation and propagation of incident regular waves. The NWT consists of the continuity equation, the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations and the two-phase VOF functions. The standard k-ε turbulence model, the finite volume method, NITA-PISO algorithm and dynamic mesh technique are employed to generate the regular waves. The effects of WFD on the operating performance of OWC chamber are investigated numerically.

Keywords

Navier-Stokes equations; finite volume methods; mesh generation; power convertors; wave power generation; 3D numerical wave tank; NITA-PISO algorithm; NWT; OWC chamber; OWC wave energy convertor; Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations; continuity equation; dynamic mesh technique; finite volume method; incident regular wave propagation; oscillating water column device; standard k-ε turbulence model; two-phase VOF functions; two-phase VOF model; wave energy conversion; wave focusing device; Atmospheric modeling; Ducts; Focusing; Mathematical model; Numerical models; Surface waves; Three dimensional displays;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS 2010 IEEE - Sydney

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5221-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5222-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANSSYD.2010.5603965

Filename

5603965