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Comparison of fully non linear and weakly nonlinear potential flow solvers for the study of wave energy converters undergoing large amplitude of motions

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We present a comparison between two distinct numerical codes dedicated to the study of wave energy converters. Both are developed by the authors, using a boundary element method with linear triangular elements. One model applies fully nonlin-ear boundary conditions in a numerical wavetank environnment (and thus referred later as NWT), whereas the second relies on a weak-scatterer approach in open-domain and can be considered a weakly nonlinear potential code (referred later as WSC). For the purposes of comparison, we limit our study to the forces on a heaving submerged sphere. Additional results for more realistic problem geometries will be presented at the conference. INTRODUCTION Among the marine renewable energy sources, wave energy is a promising option. Despite the great number of technologies that have been proposed, currently no wave energy converter (WEC) has proven its superiority over others and become a technological solution. Usual numerical tools for modeling and designing WECs are based on boundary elements methods in linear potential theory [1-4]. However WECs efficiency relies on large amplitude motions [5], with a design of their resonance frequencies in the wave excitation. Linear potential theory is thus inadequate to study the behavior of WEC in such configuration.
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hal-01199157 , version 1 (15-03-2019)

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Lucas Letournel, Jeffrey C. Harris, Pierre Ferrant, Aurélien Babarit, Guillaume Ducrozet, et al.. Comparison of fully non linear and weakly nonlinear potential flow solvers for the study of wave energy converters undergoing large amplitude of motions. ASME 33rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Artic Engineering (OMAE2014), Jun 2014, San Francisco, United States. ⟨10.1115/OMAE2014-23912⟩. ⟨hal-01199157⟩
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