Author(s): Theofano Koutrouveli; Luciana Das Neves; Paulo Rosa Santos; Francisco Taveira-Pinto; Tomas Calheiros Cabral
Linked Author(s): Paulo Rosa-Santos, Francisco Taveira Pinto
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Abstract: Wave energy conversion (WEC) technologies have been extensively studied in the past decades. However, further research on the hybridization of different WEC concepts to operate more efficiently under various metocean conditions still needs to be done. Within the OCEANERA-NET project WEC4PORTS, a novel shoreline hybrid WEC (h-WEC) combining two well-known wave energy conversion principles, an oscillating water column (OWC) and a multi-reservoir (4 reservoirs in the present configuration) overtopping device (OTD), is being optimized for installation in multi-purpose breakwaters. This paper focuses on the threedimensional numerical model developed with OpenFoam for comparing five alternative configurations of the h-WEC, by studying their hydrodynamic efficiency under different sea-states of the northern Atlantic coast of Portugal near the northern outer rubble-mound breakwater of the port of Leixoes – the research prototype.
Year: 2022