Hydrodynamic analysis of a novel wave energy converter: Hull Reservoir Wave Energy Converter (HRWEC)
| Autor: | G.A.C.T. Bandara, Young-Ho Lee, S.D.G.S.P. Gunawardane |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Physics
Float (project management) 060102 archaeology Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment 020209 energy Acoustics Dynamics (mechanics) Mode (statistics) Motion (geometry) 06 humanities and the arts 02 engineering and technology Frequency domain Hull Broadband 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering 0601 history and archaeology Energy (signal processing) |
| Zdroj: | Renewable Energy. 170:1020-1039 |
| ISSN: | 0960-1481 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.renene.2021.01.140 |
| Popis: | This paper introduces a novel concept of flap-type wave energy device named the Hull Reservoir Wave Energy Converter (HRWEC). The device is a hybrid of the Pendulum type wave energy converter (PeWEC) and the Pendulor wave energy converter. The device mainly consists of a floating reservoir and a top hinged flap that hangs inside the reservoir. The flap motion is triggered by both the float motion and the fluid motion inside the reservoir and the energy take-off happens through the relative motion between the flap and the float. Because this concept closely resembles the PeWEC, a similar float design is used in the HRWEC to facilitate comparison with available data. The dynamics and power capture are obtained using a frequency domain model, and the power capture is maximized for damping-only control for regular waves. It is shown that this new concept exhibits a broadband response compared to the PeWEC concept, which is linked to an additional mode created by the internal water body motion. As a result, this new concept expected to be suitable candidate for applications in broadband wave climatic conditions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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