Hydrodynamics of large wave energy converter arrays with random configuration variations

Abstract

Abstract

Nearshore submerged wave farm optimisation: A multi-objective approach

“…17d,18d). This finding agreed with existing optimisation studies where maximising power absorption was used as the single objective (Giassi and Göteman, 2018;Neshat et al, 2020;Tokić and Yue, 2021). The three array models performed similarly with a small number of WECs (5).…”

“…Existing studies have used different approaches to design arrays, ranging from structured arrangements of WECs (López- Ruiz et al, 2018;Mercadé Ruiz et al, 2017) to random placements (Neshat et al, 2020) and random gridded arrangements (Giassi and Göteman, 2018;Sharp and DuPont, 2018), with several early studies focussed on linear arrangements of WECs (e.g., Kagemoto andYue 1986, Thomas andEvans 1981). A recent study showed that regular line arrays optimised for a given wave spectrum generally outperform the best random arrays of the same size for that spectrum (Tokić and Yue, 2021). However, it is still not clear how the different array approaches perform in the multi-objective space.…”