A dual-functional wave-power plant for wave-energy extraction and shore protection: A wave-flume study
Conghao Xu,Zhenhua Huang +1 more
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In this paper, a dual-functional wave-power plant was formed by integrating oscillating-water-column (OWC) devices into a pile breakwater, with each pile being an OWC-pile equipped with a power take-off device.About:
This article is published in Applied Energy.The article was published on 2018-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 39 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Wave farm & Wave power.read more
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Hydrodynamic performance of a dual-floater hybrid system combining a floating breakwater and an oscillating-buoy type wave energy converter
Hengming Zhang,Binzhen Zhou,Binzhen Zhou,C.R. Vogel,Richard H. J. Willden,Jun Zang,Jing Geng +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a two-dimensional numerical wave tank was developed using Star-CCM+ Computational Fluid Dynamics software to investigate the hydrodynamic performance of a dual-floater hybrid system consisting of a floating breakwater and an oscillating-buoy type wave energy converter (WEC).
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Hydrodynamic performance of a floating breakwater as an oscillating-buoy type wave energy converter
Hengming Zhang,Binzhen Zhou,Binzhen Zhou,C.R. Vogel,Richard H. J. Willden,Jun Zang,Liang Zhang +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a two-dimensional numerical model was established using Star-CCM+ commercial software based on viscous Computational Fluid Dynamics theory to investigate the hydrodynamic performance of an oscillating buoy Wave Energy Converter (WEC) type floating breakwater under regular waves.
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Wave power extraction from a tubular structure integrated oscillating water column
TL;DR: In this paper, an analytical model based on potential flow theory and the eigen-function matching method is developed to solve the wave scattering and radiation problems of the device in finite water depths, and the model is applied to investigate the effect of the radius and finite wall thickness of the tubular-structure, the size and position of the opening on wave power extraction.
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Hydrodynamic study of a novel breakwater with parabolic openings for wave energy harvest
Chongwei Zhang,Dezhi Ning +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a 3D numerical wave tank based on the boundary element method is developed to investigate the wave field around a parabolic breakwater, where a truncated circular cylinder is placed at the focus position of each parabolic opening in front of the breakwater.
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A review of wave-energy extraction
TL;DR: In this paper, wave spectrum parameters related to transport, distribution and variability of wave energy in the sea are explained. But, the authors do not consider the effect of wave interference on the performance of wave-energy converters.
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Estimation of incident and reflected waves in random wave experiments
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Review of wave energy technologies and the necessary power-equipment
TL;DR: In this article, a complete analysis of the wave energy technology is presented, starting with the characterisation of this global resource in which the most suitable places to be exploited are showed, and the classification of the different types of wave energy converters in according to several features.