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    A numerical study on the hydrodynamic impact of device slenderness and array size in wave energy farms in realistic wave climates

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    URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11556/874
    ISSN: 0029-8018
    DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2017.06.047
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    Penalba, Markel; Touzon, Imanol; Lopez-Mendia, Joseba; Nava, Vincenzo
    Date
    2017
    Keywords
    Wave energy converter
    Wave energy array
    Farm layout
    Wave interaction
    Inter-device distance
    Abstract
    The future of wave energy converters lies in the design and realization of farms comprising of several devices, given the level of actual power flow for the individual devices and because of several operational issues. Therefore, not only the hydrodynamics of individual and isolated devices should be analysed, but interactions among devices within an array must also be carefully evaluated. In this paper, the authors attempt to parameterize the behaviour of small-, medium- and large-arrays of wave energy converters, in a particular staggered configuration, at four different locations characterized by realistic wave climates. The arrays studied in the present paper consist of heaving cylinders of different slenderness ratios. It turns out that for arrays of very short inter-device distances, regardless of the cylinder and array size, interactions are strong and lead to not negligible effects of destructive interference (total power reduction compared to the sum of isolated devices). Under ...
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