Oscillating-body converters are widely used in offshore engineering, to capture wave energies. In such a case, discrete control including both latching and declutching controls is adopted to improve the power capture performance of oscillating wave energy converters (WECs). A reliable prediction of wave excitation forces on the WEC is essential for the discrete control strategy. In this study, a time domain model is developed to calculate the hydrodynamic responses of a hemispherical oscillating WEC with discrete control in regular waves. A state space model is used to deal with the convolution term in the time domain equation, taking into account the memory effects of wave surface. Based on the developed numerical model, the effects of prediction deviations, such as the amplitude and phase of wave excitation force, have been studied. It is observed that the amplitude prediction deviation exhibits very few effects on the control performance. However, the phase prediction deviation performances significantly influence on the control performance. In some conditions, the phase prediction deviation will reduce the efficiency of the discrete control.


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    Title :

    Effects of wave excitation force prediction deviations on the discrete control performance of an oscillating wave energy converter


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    Publication date :

    2016-05-18


    Size :

    18 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English