Assessment of Scale Effects, Viscous Forces and Induced Drag on a Point-Absorbing Wave Energy Converter by CFD Simulations
This paper analyses the nonlinear forces on a moored point-absorbing wave energy converter (WEC) in resonance at prototype scale (1:1) and at model scale (1:16). Three simulation types were used: Reynolds Averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS), Euler and the linear radiation-diffraction method (lin...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2018-10-01
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| Series: | Journal of Marine Science and Engineering |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/6/4/124 |