A Review of the Implicit Motion Solver Algorithm in OpenFOAM to Simulate a Heaving Buoy

摘要

Heaving buoys are currently very interesting with regard to renewable energy. More specific, heaving buoys, in general also called Wave Energy Converters (WECs), can be used to extract wave energy from ocean waves. In order to extract a considerable amount of wave power, large numbers of WECs are arranged in farms.