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TY - JOUR
T1 - Numerical hydrodynamic modelling of a pitching wave energy converter
AU - Bhinder, Majid A.
AU - Rahmati, M. T.
AU - Mingham, Clive G.
AU - Aggidis, George Athanasios
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in European Journal of Computational Mechanics on 13/11/2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17797179.2015.1096228
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Two computational methodologies – computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and the numerical modelling using linear potential theory based boundary element method (BEM) are compared against experimental measurements of the motion response of a pitching wave energy converter. CFD is considered as relatively rigorous approach offering nonlinear incorporation of viscous and vortex phenomenon and capturing of the flow turbulence to some extent, whereas numerical approach of the BEM relies upon the linear frequency domain hydrodynamic calculations that can be further used for the time-domain analysis offering robust preliminary design analysis. This paper reports results fromboth approaches and concludes upon the comparison of numerical and experimental findings.
AB - Two computational methodologies – computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and the numerical modelling using linear potential theory based boundary element method (BEM) are compared against experimental measurements of the motion response of a pitching wave energy converter. CFD is considered as relatively rigorous approach offering nonlinear incorporation of viscous and vortex phenomenon and capturing of the flow turbulence to some extent, whereas numerical approach of the BEM relies upon the linear frequency domain hydrodynamic calculations that can be further used for the time-domain analysis offering robust preliminary design analysis. This paper reports results fromboth approaches and concludes upon the comparison of numerical and experimental findings.
U2 - 10.1080/17797179.2015.1096228
DO - 10.1080/17797179.2015.1096228
M3 - Journal article
VL - 24
SP - 129
EP - 143
JO - European Journal of Computational Mechanics
JF - European Journal of Computational Mechanics
IS - 4
ER -