Benchmarking of the new design tool InWave on a selection of wave energy converters from NumWEC project

Vincent Leroy (1) , Adrien Combourieu (1) , Maxime Philippe (1) , Aurélien Babarit (2) , François Rongère (2)

1 INNOSEA
2 LHEEA - Laboratoire de recherche en Hydrodynamique, Énergétique et Environnement Atmosphérique

Wave power has become an important field of research and development. Numerous wave energy converters (WEC) designs are being developed. Such systems efficiency needs to be evaluated and optimised to attract industrial investment. InWave is being developed to address this issue. This article presents an extended model to model comparison of InWave revisiting the NumWEC project, which gathers studies on 8 WECs inspired by existing devices. A full study has been conducted on 3 of these devices, including frequency domain results, motion and power RAOs and power matrices. Results show fair agreement and constitute a proof of concept of InWave.

Mots clés: multibody systems; wave energy converter; numerical simulation

Domaines: Mécanique des fluides [physics.class-ph]; Energie électrique

Vincent Leroy, Adrien Combourieu, Maxime Philippe, Aurélien Babarit, François Rongère. Benchmarking of the new design tool InWave on a selection of wave energy converters from NumWEC project. 2nd Asian Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Jul 2014, Tokyo, Japan. ⟨hal-01199001⟩