Oscillating water column wave energy conversion device response spectra

• Main Author: Stappenbelt, Brad
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: Research Online 2015
• Subjects: conversion; device; response; water; spectra; column; oscillating; wave; energy; Engineering; Science and Technology Studies; Arctic
• Online Access: https://ro.uow.edu.au/eispapers/5343; https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6371&context=eispapers

The objective of the present work is to serve as a practical addendum to the discrete parameter Oscillating Water Column (OWC) Wave Energy Conversion (WEC) device model proposed by Folley and Whittaker [1] at the 24th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering. In particular, a method for the interpretation of their discrete parameter model is presented, consisting of a translation from the tuning and air compressibility parameter map reported to a response spectrum representation. In this more commonly encountered form the model is more readily physically interpreted for design and analysis application.