AN OPENFOAM-BASED TWO-PHASE FLOW MODEL FOR SIMULATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL OSCILLATING-WATER-COLUMN DEVICES:MODEL VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION
1 Introduction Wave power is one of the most promising renewable energy sources.Many types of wave energy converters(WECs) have been proposed in the past to extract energy from wave field for electricity generation,and the oscillating water columns(OWC) are one type of the promising WECs that have been widely tested and investigated.A typical OWC consists of an air chamber above the water surface with one turbine mounted to the pneumatic chamber for electricity generation;the bottom of the chamber is open and submerged so that the incident wave can cause the water column inside the chamber to oscillate.The oscillation of the water surface in side the chamber generates a fluctuation of the air pressure inside the chamber,causing the air flow to drive the turbine for electricity generation.One advantage of the OWC-type wave energy converters is its robustness in simplicity of wave energy extraction mechanism.
Wave energy converter oscillating water column three-dimensional simulation
CONGHAO XU ZHENHUA HUANG
Dept.of Ocean and Resources Engineering,University of Hawaii at Manoa
国际会议
The 13th OpenFOAM Workshop(第13届OpenFOAM国际研讨会)
上海
英文
366-368
2018-06-24（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）