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Abstract

Wave Energy Converters (WECs) have excellent potential as a source of renewable energy that is yet to be commercially realised. Recent attention has been focused on the installation of Oscillating Water Column (OWC) devices as part of breakwaters or harbour walls to provide advantages of cost-sharing structures and proximity of power generation facilities to existing infrastructure. In this paper, a time domain numerical model of a fixed Multi-Chamber Oscillating Water Column (MC-OWC) is developed in MATLAB. This model is validated against a scale model experiments performed in a wave flume and good agreement is found. The validated model is used to investigate the effect of the power take-off damping on device performance parameters for a given environmental condition.

Item Type:	Conference Publication
Authors/Creators:	Shalby, M and Walker, P and Dorrell, DG and Elhanafi, A
Keywords:	wave energy converter, oscillating water column, numerical modelling, MATLAB
Journal or Publication Title:	Technical Program of the Thirteenth (2018) Pacific-Asia Offshore Mechanics Symposium
Publisher:	International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE)
Copyright Information:	Copyright 2018 by the International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers
Related URLs:	Google Scholar: Elhanafi, A
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