Preliminary verification and validation of WEC-SIM, an open-source wave energy converter design tool

Kelley Ruehl; Carlos Michelen; Samuel Kanner; Michael Lawson; Yi Hsiang Yu

doi:10.1115/OMAE2014-24312

Preliminary verification and validation of WEC-SIM, an open-source wave energy converter design tool

Kelley Ruehl, Carlos Michelen, Samuel Kanner, Michael Lawson, Yi Hsiang Yu

Department of Civil Engineering

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Abstract

To promote and support the wave energy industry, a wave energy converter (WEC) design tool, WEC-Sim, is being developed by Sandia National Laboratories and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. In this paper, the WEC-Sim code is used to model a point absorber WEC designed by the U.S. Department of Energy's reference model project. Preliminary verification was performed by comparing results of the WEC-Sim simulation through a code-to-code comparison, utilizing the commercial codes ANSYS-AQWA, WaveDyn, and OrcaFlex. A preliminary validation of the code was also performed by comparing WEC-Sim simulation results to experimental wave tank tests.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Ocean Renewable Energy
Publisher	American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
ISBN (Electronic)	9780791845547
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1115/OMAE2014-24312
State	Published - 2014
Event	ASME 2014 33rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE 2014 - San Francisco, United States Duration: 8 Jun 2014 → 13 Jun 2014

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Name	Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE
Volume	9B

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Conference	ASME 2014 33rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE 2014
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Francisco
Period	8/06/14 → 13/06/14

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Ruehl, K., Michelen, C., Kanner, S., Lawson, M., & Yu, Y. H. (2014). Preliminary verification and validation of WEC-SIM, an open-source wave energy converter design tool. In Ocean Renewable Energy (Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE; Vol. 9B). American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). https://doi.org/10.1115/OMAE2014-24312

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Ruehl, K, Michelen, C, Kanner, S, Lawson, M & Yu, YH 2014, Preliminary verification and validation of WEC-SIM, an open-source wave energy converter design tool. in Ocean Renewable Energy. Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE, vol. 9B, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), ASME 2014 33rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE 2014, San Francisco, United States, 8/06/14. https://doi.org/10.1115/OMAE2014-24312

Preliminary verification and validation of WEC-SIM, an open-source wave energy converter design tool. / Ruehl, Kelley; Michelen, Carlos; Kanner, Samuel et al.
Ocean Renewable Energy. American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014. (Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE; Vol. 9B).

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