Numerical Model Development and Validation for the WECCCOMP Control Competition

Nathan Tom; Kelley Ruehl; Francesco Ferri

doi:10.1115/OMAE2018-78094

Numerical Model Development and Validation for the WECCCOMP Control Competition

Nathan Tom
, Kelley Ruehl
, Francesco Ferri

National Wind Technology Center

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Abstract

This paper details the development and validation of a numerical model of the Wavestar wave energy converter (WEC) developed in WEC-Sim. This numerical model was developed in support of the WEC Control Competition (WECCCOMP), a competition with the objective of maximizing WEC performance over costs through innovative control strategies. WECCCOMP has two stages: numerical implementation of control strategies, and experimental implementation. The work presented in this paper is for support of the numerical implementation, where contestants are provided a WEC-Sim model of the 1:20 scale Wavestar device to develop their control algorithms. This paper details the development of the numerical model in WEC-Sim and of its validation through comparison to experimental data.

Original language	American English
Number of pages	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1115/OMAE2018-78094 https://doi.org/10.1115/OMAE2018-78094
State	Published - 2018
Event	ASME 2018 37th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE 2018 - Madrid, Spain Duration: 17 Jun 2018 → 22 Jun 2018

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Conference	ASME 2018 37th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE 2018
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Madrid
Period	17/06/18 → 22/06/18

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See NREL/CP-5000-71003 for preprint

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NREL/CP-5000-72832

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wave energy
Wavestar
WECCCOMP

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