Compact floating wave energy converters arrays: Mooring loads and survivability through scale physical modelling

Phase-resolved real-time ocean wave prediction with quantified uncertainty based on variational Bayesian machine learning

“…The experiments are carried out in the ocean basin at the COAST Laboratory at the University of Plymouth [48], which has been used extensively in previous works on simulating ocean waves and testing WECs [49,50]. A photo of the wave tank for carrying out the experiments is given in Fig.…”

“…To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, a set of wave tank experiments are carried out in this work. The experiments are carried out in the ocean basin [48] in the Coastal, Ocean and Sediment Transport (COAST) Laboratory at the University of Plymouth, UK, which has been used previously for various studies in wave [49,50] and tidal [51] energy research. A total 24 experimental runs are carried out to generate different wave environments, and the measurements at different sensor locations are recorded.…”

Modeling and Numerical Simulation of Semitensioned Mooring Line under Taut-Slack State

“…In addition, some scholars also study the impact tension of mooring system by experimental methods. Gomes et al [24] conducted an experimental study on the buoy-swinging wave energy converter of the fve-device array in the wave pool with diferent confgurations, focusing on the analysis of the device's motion and mooring tension. Liang et al [25] evaluated the feasibility of the simplifed mooring system by model experiment on a very large foating structure (VLFS) mooring system which is composed of 20 mooring chains.…”

A High-performance Open-source Solution for Multiphase Fluid-Structure Interaction

“…An important phenomenon in a wide range of scientific and engineering disciplines is the interaction between multiphase flow and elastic structures, such as an aircraft wing with a sloshing fuel tank (Gambioli et al, 2019(Gambioli et al, , 2020Mastroddi et al, 2019Mastroddi et al, , 2020Titurus et al, 2019;Saltari et al, 2021) and the impact of ocean waves on elastic ocean structures (Gomes et al, 2020). Accurately simulating a multiphase fluid-structure interaction (FSI) can help reveal the mechanisms behind important and complex real-world phenomena, allowing for important design considerations, such as how to protect an elastic structure from fatigue or failure (Botha and Hindley, 2015) or how to achieve active/passive control of a system (Ducoin et al, 2012).…”