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Oscillating Water Column
About: Oscillating Water Column is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1379 publications have been published within this topic receiving 18958 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a methodology that integrates both tasks seamlessly and guarantees the accurate computation of the power performance of a WEC installed at a site of interest; it involves a large dataset of deepwater records and the implementation of a high-resolution, nested spectral model, which is used to propagate 95% of the total offshore wave energy to the WEC site.
129 citations
01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors give an introduction to ocean wave energy converters and their impact on power systems, such as oscillating water columns, hinged contour devices as the Pelamis, overtopping devices such as the wave dragon and the Archimedes wave swing.
Abstract: The objective of this paper is to give an introduction into ocean wave energy converters and their impact on power systems. The potential of wave energy is very large. There are a lot of different methods and systems for converting this power into electrical power, such as oscillating water columns, hinged contour devices as the Pelamis, overtopping devices as the wave dragon and the Archimedes wave swing. The main characteristics of these wave energy converters are discussed. A lot of research, development and engineering work is necessary to develop the experimental systems into reliable and cost-effective power stations. The wide variety of systems makes it difficult to say general things about power quality. However, the large variations of output power are a common problem. Whether this can be solved by using wave farms has to be investigated further
125 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a time-domain numerical simulator of oscillating water column (OWC) wave power plants is presented, where the simulation of the movements of the inner free surface due to the excitation of the outer sea-waves is split into two subproblems: an outer one dealing with the incident, diffracted and radiated waves, solved once for all, and an inner one, concerning the inner water volume behavior.
122 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the numerical analyses are carried out using Fluinco model that deals with incompressible flow problems based on the Navier-Stokes equations and employs the two-step semi-implicit Taylor-Galerkin method.
121 citations
TL;DR: Based on a time-domain HOBEM (higher-order boundary element method), a two-dimensional (2D) fully nonlinear NWF (numerical wave flume) is developed to investigate the hydrodynamic performance of a fixed OWC (oscillating water column) wave energy device as discussed by the authors.
119 citations