A PIV investigation of OWC operation in regular, polychromatic and irregular waves

Tom Mitchell Ferguson, Irene Penesis, Gregor Macfarlane and Alan Fleming

Renewable Energy, 2017, vol. 103, issue C, 143-155

Abstract: Model scale testing plays an essential role in the development and evaluation of wave energy converters and is generally performed in either regular or irregular waves. A less frequently used intermediate wave type is a polychromatic wave which has properties of both. This paper presents methodology for data processing and results from experiments in all three wave types using PIV to capture the velocity fields in and around an oscillating water column. Two methods for the merging of data in the time domain from multiple runs are presented for data sources with high and low sampling rates.

Keywords: Oscillating water column (OWC); Particle image velocimetry (PIV); Irregular waves; Polychromatic waves; Time-series analysis; Wave energy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2016.11.019

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