WEC-Sim Phase 1 Validation Testing: Numerical Modeling of Experiments: Paper No. OMAE2016-54986

Yi-Hsiang Yu; Kelley Ruehl; Carlos Michelen; Bret Bosma

doi:10.1115/OMAE2016-54986

WEC-Sim Phase 1 Validation Testing: Numerical Modeling of Experiments: Paper No. OMAE2016-54986

Yi-Hsiang Yu, Kelley Ruehl, Carlos Michelen, Bret Bosma

National Wind Technology Center

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Abstract

The Wave Energy Converter Simulator (WEC-Sim) is an open-source code jointly developed by Sandia National Laboratories and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. It is used to model wave energy converters subjected to operational and extreme waves. In order for the WEC-Sim code to be beneficial to the wave energy community, code verification and physical model validation is necessary. This paper describes numerical modeling of the wave tank testing for the 1:33-scale experimental testing of the floating oscillating surge wave energy converter. The comparison between WEC-Sim and the Phase 1 experimental data set serves as code validation. This paper is a follow-up to the WEC-Sim paper on experimental testing, and describes the WEC-Sim numerical simulations for the floating oscillating surge wave energy converter.

Original language	American English
Number of pages	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1115/OMAE2016-54986
State	Published - 2016
Event	ASME 2016 35th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering - Busan, South Korea Duration: 19 Jun 2016 → 24 Jun 2016

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Conference	ASME 2016 35th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering
City	Busan, South Korea
Period	19/06/16 → 24/06/16

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See NREL/CP-5000-65836 for preprint

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NREL/CP-5000-67552

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open-source code
validation testing
wave energy converter
wave tank testing
WEC-Sim

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