The use of openfoam as a virtual laboratory to simulate oscillating water column wave energy converters
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Data publicació2015
EditorCIMNE
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Abstract
The Oscillating Water Column is one of the oldest concepts for wave energy
harvesting. T e device optimization is still a crucial point for the commercial-scale diffusion of
this technology. Therefore, research at fundamental level is still required.
The implementation and the application a CFD code for the conduction of a parameter
study aiming at the optimization of the device is presented. The numerical set up and the
validation of a virtual wave flume in the open-source environment OpenFOAM® are initially
presented, using comparatively different wave generation approaches. The application of the model
to simulate the device and a validation with physical results are shown. The model
solves incompressible 3D Navier-Stokes equations for a single Eulerian fluid mixture of water and
air, using a Finite Volume Method for equations discretization and the Volume Of
Fluid method for free surface tracking. Different turbulence models are tested,
comparing their suitability for this particular application both in terms of
computational cost and model
capability to reproduce the experimental data.
CitacióSimonetti, I. [et al.]. The use of openfoam as a virtual laboratory to simulate oscillating water column wave energy converters. A: MARINE VI. "MARINE VI : proceedings of the VI International Conference on Computational Methods in Marine Engineering". CIMNE, 2015, p. 153-164. ISBN 978-84-943928-6-3.
ISBN978-84-943928-6-3
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