Hydrodynamic analysis of shoreline owc type wave energy converters

摘要

A numerical model to predict the hydrodynamic performance of a shoreline-mounted wave energy converter, normally referred to as Oscillating Water Column (OWC), was established. Based on the 3D boundary integral equation method, the 3D Green's function was utilized to describe the hydrodynamic flow around the device. Using geometrical data of a wave absorber device symmetrically placed in a channel with various barrier depths, the hydrodynamic efficiencies were calculated for regular waves. The results were the ncom- pared with analytical results published elsewhere Malmo.