Wave-induced real-fluid effects in marine energy converters: Review and application to OWC devices

摘要: Abstract The performance assessment of industrial marine energy converters involves the integrated treatment their hydrodynamic design and optimization device hulls. Nowadays, such tasks require extensive experimental work simulation plans, consuming considerable resources time. In this comprehensive review approaches to numerical testing, advantages disadvantages existing tools, from full-scale prototype wave tank models Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) potential flow simulations, are all analysed. Likewise, current challenges as scale effects, viscosity, turbulence studied. novelty research is an approach that employs tests validate a model based on CFD serves calibrate fast solver with Morison's correction terms. allows running, tight resources, necessary for optimisation under multiple sea state conditions. Given operating regimes conventional converters, results show influence may be small, due unsteady nature oscillatory boundary layer flows.