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Constructal Design Applied to an Oscillating Water Column Wave Energy Converter Device under Realistic Sea State Conditions

Rafael Pereira Maciel    
Phelype Haron Oleinik    
Elizaldo Domingues Dos Santos    
Luiz Alberto Oliveira Rocha    
Bianca Neves Machado    
Mateus das Neves Gomes and Liércio André Isoldi    

Resumen

In this work, we conducted a numerical analysis of an oscillating water column (OWC) wave energy converter (WEC) device. The main objective of this research was to conduct a geometric evaluation of the device by defining an optimal configuration that maximized its available hydrodynamic power while employing realistic sea data. To achieve this objective, the WaveMIMO methodology was used. This is characterized by the conversion of realistic sea data into time series of the free surface elevation. These time series were processed and transformed into water velocity components, enabling transient velocity data to be used as boundary conditions for the generation of numerical irregular waves in the Fluent 2019 R2 software. Regular waves representative of the sea data were also generated in order to evaluate the hydrodynamic performance of the device in comparison to the realistic irregular waves. For the geometric analysis, the constructal design method was utilized. The hydropneumatic chamber volume and the total volume of the device were adopted as geometric constraints and remained constant. Three degrees of freedom (DOF) were used for this study: H1/L" role="presentation">??1/??H1/L H 1 / L is the ratio between the height and length of the hydropneumatic chamber, whose values were varied, and H2/l" role="presentation">??2/??H2/l H 2 / l (ratio between height and length of the turbine duct) and H3" role="presentation">??3H3 H 3 (submergence depth of hydropneumatic chamber) were kept constant. The best performance was observed for the device geometry with H1/L=" role="presentation">??1/??=H1/L= H 1 / L = 0.1985, which presented an available hydropneumatic power Phyd" role="presentation">??h????Phyd P h y d of 29.63 W. This value was 4.34 times higher than the power generated by the worst geometry performance, which was 6.83 W, obtained with an H1/L" role="presentation">??1/??H1/L H 1 / L value of 2.2789, and 2.49 times higher than the power obtained by the device with the same dimensions as those from the one on Pico island, which was 11.89 W. When the optimal geometry was subjected to regular waves, a Phyd" role="presentation">??h????Phyd P h y d of 30.50 W was encountered.

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