Abstract
To promote and support the wave energy industry, a wave energy converter (WEC) design tool, WEC-Sim, is being developed by Sandia National Laboratories and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. In this paper, the WEC-Sim code is used to model a point absorber WEC designed by the U.S. Department of Energy's reference model project. Preliminary verification was performed by comparing results ofthe WEC-Sim simulation through a code-to-code comparison, utilizing the commercial codes ANSYS-AQWA, WaveDyn, and OrcaFlex. A preliminary validation of the code was also performed by comparing WEC-Sim simulation results to experimental wave tank tests.
| Original language | American English |
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| Number of pages | 9 |
| State | Published - 2014 |
| Event | 33rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering - San Francisco, California Duration: 8 Jun 2014 → 13 Jun 2014 |
Conference
| Conference | 33rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering |
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| City | San Francisco, California |
| Period | 8/06/14 → 13/06/14 |
NREL Publication Number
- NREL/CP-5000-61531
Keywords
- NREL
- point absorber
- simulation
- wave energy converters
- WEC-Sim