Preliminary Results of a RANS Simulation for a Floating Point Absorber Wave Energy System Under Extreme Wave Conditions

This paper presents the results of a preliminary study on the hydrodynamics of a moored floating-point absorber (FPA) wave energy system under extreme wave conditions.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Yu, Y., Li, Y.
Other Authors:	Wind and Hydropower Technologies Program (U.S.)
Format:	Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:	English
Published:	National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.) 2011
Subjects:	Engineering Wave Energy Conversion (Wec) Free Surface Ocean Energy Volume Of Fluid (Vof) Simulation Floating-Point Absorber (Fpa) Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (Rans) Equation Wave Energy Conversion (Wec) Degree Of Freedom (Dof) Hydrodynamics Energy Systems 13 Hydro Energy 17 Wind Energy Arctic
Online Access:	https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc836017/

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Summary:	This paper presents the results of a preliminary study on the hydrodynamics of a moored floating-point absorber (FPA) wave energy system under extreme wave conditions.